[vtkusers] About the version number

[David Doria]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Wenlong Wang <scc.wwl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm running an example from Kitware website. At the beginning of the
> example, it says "You need the git version of VTK from 10/12/2010 or later
> to use this functionality. "
>
> My current version number is VTK 5.6. Does that mean I have to download
> VTK5.8? It's time consuming to install the new package and reconfigure it.
> So I really don't want to do unless it is necessary.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Best wishes
> Wenlong

You'd have to check the release dates. I think this is a good way:
https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/tags

So it does look like 10/12/2010 occured after the 5.6 tag, so you
would most likely need 5.8. You could try it with 5.6, but most likely
you will get missing function errors.

David