[vtkusers] Mac OSX and VTK 4.0 question

[John]

hey, 

im sorry, look, my initial comments were based on 
ignorance etc, and the fact that when i first got VTK4, 
either it came with CMake version 1.0 or i went off and got 
CMake and the latest version at the time was version 1.0

And it seemed a bit silly for VTK to start using this CMake 
thing, when almost noone else uses CMake, and when it
was only at version 1.0 and was thus likely to be a bit of an 
untested and possibly in the near future unsupported 
product, if development on it stopped or stalled as it does 
on a lot of open source projects.

It also annoyed me that other Unix software, including 
huge projects etc get by fine with normal configure, autoconf, 
GNU make, etc. And now here is VTK using this newfangled 
CMake thing. I was unaware of the fact that CMake helps 
with cross-platform development, as it is able to generate 
makefiles etc for Windows compilers as well as Unixes. 

And now CMake is at 1.4.3 i would expect it to be a 
more reliable thing, so ok, CMake is great, and will be even 
better when it works properly on MacOS X.

So, sorry i shot my mouth off. One day ill learn :)

john

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 06:56 pm, you wrote:
> >>>>> "JSS" == jss  <John> writes:
>
>     JSS> so we have 2 votes now for VTK to dump CMake !
>
> Joke or no joke, please avoid making such comments.  The respective
> developers of CMake, Dart, etc. have put in heck of a lot of effort
> into these tools and these tools are excellent.  If you have a problem
> post it.  You might get a response.  There is little point in
> complaining.
>
> And Gala, its not the package thats nasty.  Sure, you are having
> difficulties in getting VTK to work under OSX.  But why should that be
> CMake's fault?  This is Open Source Software.  If you see a problem,
> fix it or post a fix.  Its not asif the developers were gifted with a
> Mac OSX box to play with and its not asif they have 30 hours a day!
>
> prabhu