[vtk-developers] Remote Modules

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

On related topic, Slicer also has the concept of remote module that build
on top of a function named "ExternalProject_Add_Source" that will
eventually be integrated into Artichoke. See [1], [2] and [3]

[1]
http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build_system/Remote_Module

[2]
https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/blob/f90f789e0b53da65f1c2b8a417d8e8dfedee4518/CMake/ExternalProjectAddSource.cmake#L125

[3] http://cmake-artichoke.readthedocs.org/en/latest/


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > ITK has a great mechanism to bring in external contributions. They are
> > called Remote Modules. In a nut shell, you provide a small description
> > of where to get the remote itk modules. For example:
> > #
> > # ITK WikiExamples
> > #  This remote module require a VTK build
> > #  The following CMake variable must be set for the ITK build
> > #
> > # Check for requires cmake variables
> >
> > itk_fetch_module(WikiExamples
> >   "A collection of examples that illustrate how to use ITK."
> >   GIT_REPOSITORY
> > https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKWikiExamples.git
> > # June 13, 2014
> >   GIT_TAG b14135585268b26a856becbe642de25a08359c04
> >   )
> >
> > Then. cmake discovers the module and its itk-module.cmake file and
> > treats the contributon as a first class module (if turned on).
> >
> > The mechanism is described here:
> >
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Policy_and_Procedures_for_Adding_Remote_Modules
> >
> > The knowledge base for this resides at Kitware. I suspect that
> > something similar could be added to VTK.
> >
> Excellent suggestion, I was hoping to get to this - I had talked with
> some of the ITK developers about it after reading a blog post or
> source article about it. As Dave pointed out, scheduling some time is
> the hardest point but there is a module mentioned in another thread
> that looks like an excellent candidate (and I am sure there are many
> more).
>
> Marcus
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