[vtkusers] package generation without TCL

[Dave Partyka]

I wouldn't object to this. A coworker and I just recently locally adjusted
that to be IF(VTK_WRAP_TCL OR VTK_WRAP_PYTHON) as we were experimenting with
creating a package with vtkpython and the vtk's python module.

Though, historicaly we have only included vtk.exe (a vtk-ified tcl
interpreter) as part of the release so that one can easily run the examples
in the book without building VTK.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Benoit Bleuze <Benoit.Bleuze at inria.fr>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to add VTK to an application on various platforms, and I use
> Cpack to generate stand alone VTK packages that we will ship with our
> software.
>
> However, I have a problem with the package generation: if there is no TCL
> wrapping enabled, the CMake files don't define any CPACK variables (taken
> from VTKCPack.cmake):
>
> # For now, only build the CPack installer if vtk(.exe) will be available
> for
>  # installation:
>  #
>  IF(VTK_WRAP_TCL)
>    SET(CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY "VTK - The Visualization Toolkit")
>    [...]
>
>
> Why is package generation  limited to the presence of the VTK_WRAP_TCL
> flag? and I guess from the comment in the file, why only when there is the
> vtk executable file? Library packages are more than common, so what is the
> reasoning behind this? And as a corollary, what about removing this
> limitation?
>
> Best Regards,
> Ben
>
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