[vtkusers] Re: [vtk-developers] VTK 5.2 Release Planning

[Mike Jackson]

I would like to contribute a Dashboard but I need a few things:

1. I am using ICC on OS X 10.4.11 (probably one of a few)
2. CMake does not have a default Darwin-icc.cmake file
3. Help solving #2 above.

Justification: With OS X now running on Intel CPUs and Intel itself
now selling icc/icpc for OS X there needs to be a Dashboard to make
sure this combination works.

I have had some issues in the past trying to build VTK/ParaView with
ICC/ICPC on OS X and I would like to get this taken care if possible.

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Mike Jackson

On Jan 28, 2008 3:14 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> Are there any changes that affect the backward compatibility of the
> API(either public or protected) since 5.0?
>
> Bill
>
> 2008/1/28 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>:
>
> > Dear VTK users and developers,
> >
> > We are planning to create the VTK-5-2 branch in about a month (around the
> end of February), followed by a month or so of bug fixing activity, followed
> by the first release candidate for the VTK 5.2 release in early April, 2008.
> >
> > As part of that plan, we would like to ask you, the VTK community, to
> contribute to a successful release by doing the following:
> > - Review the non-resolved bugs in the bug database and make notes on those
> you really want to see fixed.
> > - Help us make the "What's New in VTK 5.2" section of the Wiki page
> complete (did we forget something that you know is new in 5.2?) --
> contribute to the Wiki at http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning
> > - Help us get (and keep!) the dashboards to a state of blissful green.
> > - Promptly add any newly found bugs or last-minute feature requests to the
> bug database.
> > - Keep reading and responding to the mailing lists.
> >
> > We will be triaging the bug database to prioritize which bugs we will fix.
> If you would like to see a particular bug addressed before we release 5.2,
> please visit the bug database and "vote" for that bug sometime in the next
> week or two. To "vote", visit http://public.kitware.com/Bug, sign in (or
> sign up for an account and then sign in), and add a note to any bug that you
> would like to see fixed. That will show us what the interest level is in
> fixing that particular bug. Obviously, bugs with little or no interest
> expressed are less likely to be addressed than bugs with much interest
> expressed.
> >
> > New features in VTK since the 5.0 release include:
> > - 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
> > - Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support and Mac
> OSX support
> >
> > For all of us VTK-ers at Kitware and around the world, thanks for your
> continued contributions,
> > David Cole
> > Kitware, Inc.
> >