[vtkusers] adding libs (was vtkStreamer and vtkFunctionSet)

[Randy Heiland]

I don't exactly follow these arguments.  Specifically, I don't see the issue
with providing a CMake boolean for using HDF.  Just as, when we build VTK w/
parallel w/ MPI, the user is responsible for building/providing the MPI lib,
why can't the same be true for HDF (or whatever)?

Surely Kitware doesn't verify that all flavors of MPI work on all platforms.

--Randy


On Jun 21, 10:25am, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtkStreamer and vtkFunctionSet
> Also libraries such as HDF5 are problematic for several reasons. An
> example is the way they do memory management. Purify always detect
> memory leaks even though they are not actual leaks. Another major
> drawback of including HDF5 and NetCDF is that every time we include
> another library in VTK, somebody has to port it to CMake, make it work
> on all platforms, maintain the compatibility with new versions, etc. The
> CMake 1.4 will solve the problem of linking libraries to your projects,
> but the libraries will have to be present for all projects even for
> those who do not use HDF5 and NetCDF.
>
> 			Andy
>
> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 08:27, Berk Geveci wrote:
> > Oh, did I not mention that we are working on a new (XML based) file
> > format ? :-) This doesn't mean that VTK shouldn't support HDF and
> > netCDF. I believe it should. We have experimented with both and
> > have some readers for specific versions of both. The main problem is
> > that they are very general and require additional information describing
> > which arrays correspond to geometry, which to data etc. Also, netCDF and
> > HDF readers would require additional libraries since we don't want
> > to distribute the libaries with VTK.
>
>
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