[vtkusers] urgent: update VTK

Amy Squillacote amy.squillacote at kitware.com
Tue Sep 13 10:01:13 EDT 2005


Hi Isabelle,

I'm copying your response back to the VTK users 
list.  Please try to keep the discussion on the list, not offline.

- Amy

At 09:51 AM 9/13/2005, Renaud Isabelle wrote:
>Hi Amy,
>
>- Yes, I was able to enter a password and the 
>error is encountered  only after doing that.
>
>- Yes, the machine from which I am triing to 
>connect is behind a firewall. I just called my 
>system administrator, he never heard about CVS. 
>He needs to have the IP address. Do you know what it is?
>
>Isabelle
>
>Amy Squillacote <amy.squillacote at kitware.com> a écrit :
>Hi Isabelle,
>
>Were you able to enter a password when you tried 
>to log in, or did this error message happen 
>before you were prompted to do that?  Is the 
>machine from which you are trying to connect to 
>public.kitware.com behind a firewall?  (That 
>could prevent you from being able to connect to 
>the server here.)  I just tried downloading VTK 
>5.0 from CVS, logging in as anonymous, and had 
>no problems doing so (just to verify that the 
>intructions on the VTK web site are still valid).
>
>- Amy
>
>At 09:31 AM 9/13/2005, Renaud Isabelle wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Thanks for your replies.
>>
>>I think you are right: downloading only files I 
>>need obviously doesn`t work. I really would 
>>like to get the new release by CVS.
>>
>>However, by using both command shell and 
>>WinCvs, I don't manage to login to CVS. Here is the response:
>>
>>cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK login
>>Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at public.kitware.com:2401:/cvsroot/VTK
>>cvs [login aborted]: connect to 
>>public.kitware.com:2401 failed: Aucune 
>>connexion n'a pu être établie car l'ordinateur cible l'a expressément refusée.
>>
>>In other words, it says that no connection 
>>could have been done because remote server 
>>refuses it.  Do you know why? There don't have 
>>any other way to get this new release?
>>
>>Unfortunately, in my lab, no one is using CVS..... :-(
>>
>>Isabelle
>>
>>
>>
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>>! Amy Squillacote <amy.squillacote at kitware.com> a écrit :
>>Hi Isabelle,
>>You can't just download files that have been 
>>added to VTK since the 4.4 release and expect 
>>them to compile.  VTK has undergone many 
>>changes since that release (enough to have a 
>>new major version number).  If you want to use 
>>these new files, you will need to upgrade to a 
>>new version of VTK -- not just downloading new 
>>files you want to use one class at a time.  VTK 
>>5.0 is not yet available for download from the 
>>web.  This means you'll need to use CVS 
>>(Concurrent Versions System) to get this new version.
>>If you are running on Windows, you can download 
>>WinCVS from here: http://www.wincvs.org . If 
>>you are running *nix, cvs is likely already on 
>>your system. In either case, you can specify 
>>VTK-5-0 as a tag so CVS knows what version of 
>>VTK to download.  For the command-line versi! 
>>on of CVS, follow the instructions here: 
>>http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php#cvs. When 
>>you do the checkout, use the -r flag to specify the version (as shown below).
>>
>>cvs -d 
>>:pserver:anonymous at public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK checkout -r VTK-5-0 VTK
>>I've never used WinCVS, but you'll need to 
>>specify the same things to it that you would 
>>for the command-line version.  Is there anyone 
>>at your office that has used CVS before?  If 
>>so, they would be better equipped to help you learn how to use it.
>>
>>- Amy
>>At 03:56 PM 9/12/2005, Renaud Isabelle wrote:
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>This is maybe ridiculous but how can I do 
>>>this: downloading from CVS with the branch tag 
>>>VTK-5-0? When I download a file from CVS, I 
>>>just click on the download button from this site:
>>>
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=Insight>http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=Insight
>>>
>>>Revision 1.27 - 
>>>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?rev=1.27&only_with_tag=VTK-5-0&view=markup> 
>>>view) 
>>>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?rev=1.27> 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?rev=1.27>download) 
>>>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.27> 
>>>as text) 
>>>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?annotate=1.27&only_with_tag=VTK-5-0> 
>>>annotate) - 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?view=log&only_with_tag=VTK-5-0&r1=1.27>[select 
>>>for diffs]
>>>Tue Jul 19 17:55:47 2005 UTC (7 weeks, 6 days ago) by martink
>>>Branch: 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=MAIN>MAIN 
>>>
>>>CVS Tags: 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=HEAD>HEAD, 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-5-0-bp>VTK-5-0-bp, 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-PaintersShaders-bp>VTK-PaintersShaders-bp, 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=Widgets-Redesign-bp>Widgets-Redesign-bp 
>>>
>>>Branch point for: 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-5-0>VTK-5-0, 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-PaintersShaders>VTK-PaintersShaders, 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=Widgets-Redesign>Widgets-Redesign 
>>>
>>>Changes since 1.26: +2 -2 lines
>>>Di! ff to 
>>><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-5-0&r2=1.27&r1=1.26>previous 
>>>1.26
>>>
>>>BTW, compilation seems to fail with 
>>>vtkGarbageCollector called from 
>>>vtkAlgorithm.... I am so confused that all day 
>>>long I have been trying to compile my project.
>>>
>>>Isabelle
>>>
>>>James Carroll <mrmaple at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>Hi Isabelle,
>>>I just downloaded from CVS with the branch tag VTK-5-0 and
>>>after running CMake with just python bindings, it built without
>>>any trouble on Windows XP / VS7.
>>>Even though the 5.0 branch is under heavy development I do
>>>think it's a little safer than CVS HEAD.
>>>-Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>On 9/12/05, Renaud Isabelle wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I need to use some functions such as vtkParametricFunctionSource,
>>> > vtkParametricSpline, vtkAlgorithm, and so on.
>>> >
>>> > I'm using VTK 4.4 but these files are not 
>>> included inside. So I downloaded
>>> > them from CVS. However, I can't manage to build my project.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe, addition to having downloaded .h and .cxx files, I also have to
>>> > rebuild my VTK folder. Is that right?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for answering,
>>> >
>>> > Isabelle
>>> >
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