[vtkusers] Improving VTK packages: some suggestions. [long]

[Jan Stifter]

if we discuss about packaging, we could do some work in the compiling
process too.

- configure/make/rpm/deb are nice tools in a unix/linux environment.
 
- how about an install tool, which runs on all platforms (win32 too)?
i know of sebastian barre, that he has looked at some very nice tools,
which run above perl (correct me if i am wrong) and can generate
makefiles for all kind of systems, also for win32, borland and m$-vc
compiler.

so if we discuss about installation, we should also try to remove the
pcmaker and make a unique way of installing vtk.

it should be especially important to be able to compile vtk

- static with debug
- static without debug
- dynamic with debug
- dynamic without debug

it should also be possible to split vtk into several libs or to
compile one huge lib.

and this, with one nice tool, on _all_ systems.

jan
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