[vtkusers] Activiz 5.10

[Benjamin Jähn]

+1 for what ever we can do ...

Am 28.03.2013 18:05, schrieb David Cole:
> How many people would pay something on a Kickstarter project or an 
> Indiegogo project to make ActiViz .NET 5.10 and 6.0 happen? I've been 
> considering trying to make it happen with an appropriate funding 
> level, but fear that there would not quite be enough interest in this 
> to make it happen. If it seems like it's actually possible, (based on 
> response here), I might actually do that.
>
> This question about ActiViz 5.10's availability has been asked and 
> answered repeatedly, usually by Dave DeMarle, on the VTK mailing 
> lists... Do a google on "activiz 5.10 site:vtk.org" to see the 
> previous emails.
>
> The bottom line is that I started a gerrit topic to merge ActiViz .NET 
> into mainstream VTK 'master' itself last fall, worked on it bit by bit 
> from September until January, and then ... had to leave it in the 
> hands of my capable colleagues because of my new duties. It is sitting 
> on the shelf for now for want of funding.
>
> The work-in-progress can be seen in this gerrit topic:
>
>    http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/1615/
>
> There is a wiki page about it here:
>
>    http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/CSharp/ComingSoon
>
> The problems you have trying to build ActiViz .NET yourself are due to 
> the modularization of VTK. You should be able to build a standalone 
> ActiViz .NET against VTK 5.10 (rather than VTK 'master'), although you 
> may run into some different problems that are addressed by some pieces 
> of the commits that you'll see in the above topic.
>
> Unfortunately, it requires a bit of work to keep things in sync with 
> the constantly shifting and changing VTK, and that was one of the 
> motivations behind trying to get it into VTK itself. Since ActiViz 
> .NET was scarcely-funded at best, it was challenging to keep it up to 
> date constantly.
>
> Please do reply with a "go for it" or "Kickstarter +1" if you would be 
> willing to pay something to see ActiViz continue breathing.... If 
> there's really enough interest in it, maybe I'll actually do one.  :-)
>
>
> David C.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boxer, Aaron <Aaron.Boxer at uhn.ca>
> To: vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Sent: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 3:13 pm
> Subject: [vtkusers] Activiz 5.10
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>
> Is this planned any time soon?
>
> Thanks!
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