[vtkusers] Windows installer for 5.0.3

[David Cole]

Would you be willing to describe what you *did* expect from the "Windows
Installer" given what you read about it on the downloads page...?

What verbiage would you recommend to make it clear that the Windows
installer installs a pre-built VTK executable that allows you to run VTK TCL
scripts?

Or is it more the case that we should just eliminate the Windows Installer
since there are no libraries / source code in it....?


Thanks,
David Cole
Kitware, Inc.



On 7/25/07, Andreas Keil <andreas.keil at cs.tum.edu> wrote:
>
> I must admint that I was also mislead by the "Windows Installer" in the
> download section.
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vtkusers-bounces+andreas.keil=cs.tum.edu at vtk.org
> [mailto:vtkusers-bounces+andreas.keil=cs.tum.edu at vtk.org] On Behalf Of
> David Goldsmith
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 15:41
> To: vtk
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Windows installer for 5.0.3
>
> David Cole wrote:
> > That installer merely installs a pre-built "vtk.exe" for Windows such
> > that you can run VTK Tcl scripts...
> Then the Windows installer should tell the unsuspecting user that that
> is all that it is doing (and indicate that if the user wants to actually
> develop software w/ VTK, one has to download the source and build it "by
> hand," as w/ any other platform, the point being it is *misleading* to
> offer an installer for Windows and no other platform - it gives the
> impression that for Windows, one need only run the installer, not go
> through all the machinations one needs to on other platforms).  Given
> the pace of modern life, it is unrealistic to expect users to read the
> excessive verbiage that people put on download pages, but it is
> realistic to expect people to read a big flashing "WARNING" sign put
> either at the beginning (preferably) or end of an Install wizard.
> > Given the number of compilers/platforms in use these days, it's
> > impractical to ship a useful "make install" tree or binary libraries
> > for VTK.
> Yet you offer an Installer for VTK Tcl scripts, but only for Windows -
> why show Windows preferential treatment here but not elsewhere?  I'm not
> suggesting you ship "make install" trees and/or binaries for all
> compiler/platform combinations (though your complaint rings hollow:
> given the amount of time clearly spent just developing the software, it
> seems like a rather marginal extra investment to develop said
> trees/binaries), merely that you better "dummy-proof" what you do "ship."
> > For VTKConfig.cmake, or libraries to link your own programs against,
> > download or pull the source tree from CVS, as detailed at
> > http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php and then build it with CMake and
> > your favorite compiler/build system.
> TLTL,
>
> DG
> >
> > HTH,
> > David
> >
> >
> > On 6/27/07, *David Goldsmith* <David.L.Goldsmith at noaa.gov
> > <mailto:David.L.Goldsmith at noaa.gov>> wrote:
> >
> >     http://www.vtk.org/files/release/5.0/vtk-5.0.3-win32.exe
> >
> >     appears not to install VTKConfig.cmake (and who knows what else...)
> >
> >     DG
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