[vtkusers] VTK 5.2.0

[Pat LeSmithe]

Congratulations to the VTK developer team and Kitware for lots of
impressive additions to an already impressive toolkit!

I have a question about CVS checkouts, tags, and branches.  What is the
difference between the tag "VTK-5-2-0" and branch "VTK-5-2"?  Is the
latter the one to checkout to keep up with patches and fixes?  Could you
please indicate the cvs command lines to get the right VTK and VTKData
directories?

Thanks!

P.S.  Does CMake have options to automatically "download additional
components" and build/use/install them *if* the user accepts their
license terms and turns them on?


David Cole wrote:
> Dear VTK users and developers,
> 
> Finally! Kitware is pleased to announce the first official release
> of VTK 5.2.
> 
> The VTK 5.2.0 release is now available for download from the VTK
> web site: http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php. This release contains
> many improvements and additions compared to VTK 5.0. The following
> changes are included in this release.
> 
> *changes from 5.0 to 5.2:*
> - Infovis kit
> - Views kit
> - New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new widgets
> - New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio, sqlite
> - Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib
> - More than 300 new C++ classes
> - More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards
> - Improvements to PLY file support
> - Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support
> - Mac OS X-specific fixes:
> -- Defaults to building using Cocoa instead of Carbon
> -- Can now be compiled against the 10.5 SDK
> -- Can now be built as a Universal Binary
> -- Initial support for Resolution Independence in 10.5
> 
> For full details on the new classes and tests, and other additional
> information, see the Wiki page:
> 
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning
> 
> We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.
> 
> - David
> 
> 
> 
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