[vtkusers] package generation without TCL

[Benoit Bleuze]

Good, would that mean there is a chance of seeing that test go away 
altogether some time in the future in some git commit?

Ben.

Dave Partyka wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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