[vtk-developers] New module system preview

[Bill Lorensen]

I agree with David regarding Remote Modules.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 1:25 PM David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 1:53 PM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> `find_package(VTK-prev-stage)` would need to be done in later stages
>> since multiple packages wouldn't be able to install to the same CMake
>> package. The installed VTK CMake package would be…not the same for
>> consumers of the package.
>>
>
> Maybe the VTK build could always divide itself into multiple installed
> cmake packages, to keep things consistent?  I haven't thought this
> through, however, and it might be a very bad idea...
>
>
>> The best thing to do is probably to trim down what constitutes VTK
>> itself and move modules to external repositories.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>> VTK wouldn't care about the top-level `CMakeLists.txt` at all. It would
>> find the module via the `vtk.module` file and module logic would just
>> build it as any other module (this is what ParaView does for its
>> VTK submodule).
>>
>
> That sounds better than VTK current modules.  I'll have to grab the
> new branch and do some experiments.
>
>   David
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