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

[Bill Lorensen]

David,

I bumped the VTKExamples to a stable version. 111 C++ examples added since 8.0.

Bill


On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Elvis Stansvik
<elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
> Den 26 okt. 2017 4:18 em skrev "David E DeMarle" <dave.demarle at kitware.com>:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Elvis Stansvik
> <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
>>
>> Den 26 okt. 2017 12:11 fm skrev "David E DeMarle"
>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com>:
>>
>> 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."
>>
>>
>> Phew :)
>>
>> BTW, no more 8.0.x point release planned? Or will that happen/not happen
>> depending on how much turns up before 8.1?
>>
>
> There will be no 8.0.2.
>
>>
>> I have this problem with thin volumes that was fixed in master, but was
>> hoping to avoid having to run a patched 8.0.1.
>>
>
> What is master will soon be 8.1. If master works in your work you can be
> pretty confident that 8.1 will too.
>
>
> Alright, thanks for the info. Was just asking in case there would be an
> 8.0.2. But I'll keep running a patched 8.0.1 until 8.1 is out then. I'd
> rather keep as close to a released version as possible, even if I know VTK
> has a very sunny master.
>
> Elvis
>
>
>
>> Elvis
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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