[vtkusers] ANNOUNCE: vtk 6.0.0.rc1 is available to download

[Michka Popoff]

Hi

Should be related to this problem ? :
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2012-December/012577.html


2013/5/22 Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com>

> If I enable BUILD_TESTING then there are no compile errors.
>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I get compile errors with RC1. 163 projects built OK and 10 failed. Most
>> common error was "cannot include vtkTestDriver.h". Below is a small sample
>> of errors. Machine: Win7x64 + VS2010SP1.
>>
>> 6>D:/SDK/vtk-6.0.0/Testing/Rendering/vtkTestingObjectFactory.h(38): fatal
>> error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkTestDriver.h': No such file or
>> directory
>> 7>D:\SDK\vtk-6.0.0\Rendering\HybridOpenGL\Testing\Cxx\TestSurfaceLIC.h(27):
>> fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkRegressionTestImage.h': No
>> such file or directory
>> 8>D:\SDK\vtk-6.0.0\Rendering\HybridOpenGL\Testing\Cxx\TestStructuredGridLIC2DSlice.h(29):
>> fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkTestUtilities.h': No such
>> file or directory
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:24 PM, David E DeMarle <
>> dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Kitware and the VTK team are happy to announce that VTK 6.0 has
>>> entered the release candidate stage!
>>>
>>> You can find the source and data packages here:
>>> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#cand
>>>
>>> The big news in this release is that VTK has been refactored from a
>>> large monolithic resource consisting of 19 tightly bound "kits" into a
>>> still large but now composeable resource consisting of 160 loosely bound
>>> "modules". Now applications can be built using just the source code for the
>>> small portions of the VTK library that they actually use instead of the
>>> whole million plus line enchilada. Conversely, it is easier than ever
>>> now to add new capabilities to VTK by writing small self-contained external
>>> modules.
>>>
>>> To refactor VTK, we started by cleanly separating VTK's Executive and
>>> DataObject classes. You may notice this first in the way that
>>> vtkAlgorithm::SetInput() has now been replaced by
>>> vtkAlgorithm::SetInputConnection() for connecting Algorithms together and
>>> vtkAlgorithm::SetInputData() for feeding DataObjects directly into
>>> Algorithms.
>>>
>>> Next, we modernized our CMake build system scripts by sorting the
>>> classes into small functional groups, removing all of the configure time
>>> behavioral changes, and replacing the dated KitCommonBlock CMake macros
>>> with vtkModuleMacro CMake macros to define the content and dependencies of
>>> each functional group. You may notice this first in the way that platform
>>> specific classes, such as vtkXRenderWindowInteractor, are not produced
>>> automatically by calls to vtkRenderWindowInteractor::New() anymore, unless
>>> CMake knows that your code requires the RenderingOpenGL implementation of
>>> the RenderingCore module.
>>>
>>> For full guideline to upgrading your application from VTK 5.x to VTK
>>> 6.x, please see the VTK migration guides at:
>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration/Overview,
>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Build_System_Migration and
>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Module_Development
>>>
>>> Besides modularization, VTK has the usual spate of new features, bug
>>> fixes and cleanups. These items will be summarized when VTK 6.0.0 final is
>>> released in a few days time.
>>>
>>> The attachment has a complete list of changes in this release
>>> candidate since VTK5.10.1. Please try this version of VTK and
>>> report any issues to the list or the bug tracker so that we can try to
>>> address them before VTK 6.0.0 final.
>>>  David E DeMarle
>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>> R&D Engineer
>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>
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