[vtk-developers] New module system preview

[David E DeMarle]

+1 for rename

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 2:09 PM Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:

> So.... if we are significantly changing the modules shoudl we also take
> the time to rename OpenGL2 back to OpenGL as was the original intent?
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 22:31:38 +0100, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
>> > Let me just jump in and say that while it sounds neat to embed it
>> > comments, it might make it slightly harder to make an updated version
>> > of Utilities/Maintenance/WhatModulesVTK.py script (which I love!).
>>
>> Thanks for the reminder that this file needs updated.
>>
>> CMake supports long-form comments now, so I'd think it'd be in blocks
>> like this:
>>
>> ```cmake
>> #[==[vtk.kit
>> ...
>> #]==]
>> #[==[vtk.module
>> ...
>> #]==]
>> ```
>>
>> with a limit of one `vtk.module` per file. Easy to slice out with a
>> simple `sed` call. Not so easy in CMake, but also not ridiculous.
>>
>> This is similar to the way the new module system is documented:
>>
>> ```cmake
>> #[==[.md
>> ...
>> #]==]
>> ```
>>
>> which will make it possible to extract out these blocks and feed them to
>> Doxygen and get the module system API docs on the web with the rest of
>> VTK.
>>
>> There's also `#[==[.md INTERNAL` for internal function documentation as
>> well.
>>
>> --Ben
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