[vtkusers] New vtk debs based on CVS source: some comments.

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

hi,

Last night I made debian potato packages for VTK using the CVS tree as
on 20001120.  The debs build fine.  I am using Sebastien Barre
et. al.'s scripts to generate the doxygen compatible headers and the
documentation.  So far, I have tested the vtk-tcl and vtk-python debs
and they seem fine.  The c++ deb must also be ok. I do not use java so
I have been unable to test the java bindings.  I guess they should be
fine.  There are a few issues with the documentation, mostly because
the docs doxygen generates are so voluminous.

Here are some things that I thought worthy of mention.

David Gobbi:

       Your work on the python wrappers is fantastic!  Actually, I
       don't need to use the recursive function you sent to get all
       the methods.  Plain old dir seems to work fine.  I checked with
       a few vtk objects and it works fine.  Hence, the
       vtkPipelineBrowser works beautifully as it is and still cashes
       off your hard work. :) I can of course optimise it for speed
       and eliminate some unnecessary stuff that I do.  Thanks a ton.


I found a small bug in the vtkCubeAxesActor.  If I change the font
factor and do a Render, the fonts dont change a bit.  They only change
if I resize the window.  This bug was there even in the vtk-3.1.2
release (I mean the stable release).


Fellow debian users please dont ask me yet for download URL's.  I am
trying to get a debian maintainer to accept my packages.  Considering
that I have done all the dirty packaging work and that lintian reports
no errors I think I will succeed sooner or later.  Once I do, vtk will
be packaged for debian and might even make it into woody.  In any case
in a week or so I will try to get my current debs hosted somewhere
where others can download it.

thanks,
prabhu