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

[David Cole]

Send me your Darwin-icc.cmake file and I will get it added to CVS CMake
(assuming it looks reasonable). After that, you can use CVS CMake to drive
Intel/Mac dashboards.


On 1/28/08, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ----------
> 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.
> > >
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