[vtk-developers] heads up - vtk 8.1 branch is coming soon

[David E DeMarle]

Bah, important typos in that:

I should have written:
"Long term plan is for 9.0 after 8.1. We expect 8.1 before end of year and
9.0 sometime in spring."


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
Principal Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:09 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Long term plan is for 9.0 after 8.1 and we expect 8.1 in sometime in
> spring.
>
> The PythonD change seems worthy of 9.0 to me. We'll be OK to put it into
> master as soon as the 8.1 branch happens.
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> Principal Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909 <(518)%20881-4909>
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:56 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have my patch that eliminates the "PythonD" libraries from all the
>> modules:
>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/3075
>>
>> However, it might be best to delay it until VTK 9, since it requires
>> non-trivial changes to all third-party packages that rely on VTK's Python
>> wrapping tools.  For example, this is what is needed to make Paraview work
>> with the changes:
>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/1831/diffs
>>
>> What's the long-term release plan?  Is 9.0 imminent, or are there going
>> to be more 8.x releases after 8.1?
>>
>>  - David
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:23 PM, David E DeMarle <
>> dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone have work in progress that should delay the branch point for
>>> 8.1? Does anyone know of any critical bugs that we need to resolve right
>>> now?
>>>
>>> If so, please add the 8.1 milestone on any relevant merge requests or
>>> bug reports so we know when we can get started.
>>>
>>> We are hoping to get 8.1 started by November 16th.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> The VTK Maintenance Team
>>>
>>
>>
>
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