[vtk-developers] VTK ExternalData default object store

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Tue May 21 11:30:23 EDT 2013


The ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES option is not VTK specific.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 05/21/2013 11:25 AM, Robert Maynard wrote:
> > If we do move to some CMake variable, I believe that the name
> > ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES is a bad choice as it doesn't express what
> > project or purpose it has unless you are already understand CMake
> > packages and how VTK stores testing data.
> >
> > I purpose a name similar to: VTK_TESTING_DATA_STORAGE which is clear
> > to all people on what the intended purpose is.
>
> The ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES option comes from the CMake ExternalData
> module.  It is not specific to any one project like VTK.  The content
> stored in the named location(s) is content-addressed and therefore can
> never have conflicts across projects.  It can even share copies of
> identical data used by multiple projects.
>
> -Brad
>



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