[vtkusers] announce: vtk 6.2.0 release candidate 1 is ready

Wed Feb 25 17:08:20 EST 2015

Hi David,

I managed to select CMake configuration options which cause a mysterious
error: configure_file called with unknown argument(s): COPY_ONLY.

Attached are my changes to the configuration and CMake's configure log
(error is at the end).

Regards

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:43 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> The VTK developement team is happy to announce that VTK 6.2 has entered
> the release candidate stage!
>
> You can find the source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages here:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latestcand
>
> 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 6.2.0 final.
>
> The official release notes will be available when VTK final is released in
> the next few weeks. In the meantime here is a preview:
>
> --
>
> VTK’s use of the parallelism available in modern architectures continues
> to mature. To set the stage for this move, we have refactored how pieces
> and extents are handled in the pipeline. The pipeline used to inject extent
> translators into the pipeline to obtain structured sub-extents for each
> requested unstructured piece. This approach had flaws so now the
> translation responsibility falls to the readers which are best able to make
> the computation and parallel filters are now responsible for dealing
> gracefully with unexpected extents. Next we have we have updated to the
> latest version of the Dax toolkit and begun to lay the groundwork for
> adopting the vtk-m project as a successor to the Piston, Dax, and EAVL
> efforts. There have  been a series of minor improvements to the SMP
> framework and vtkSMP filters too as we get ready to adopt them in a large
> swath of VTK’s algorithms. In related work, note that we have begun to
> support Xeon Phi (MIC) chips. For information about this please refer to: h
> ttp://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29
> <http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29>.
>
> Similarly VTK’s support for the Web continues to advance in this release.
> VTK-Web has migrated to WAMP 2.0 in 6.2 and there are now complete and
> updated examples of using the web launcher to start vtkweb applications.
> vtkWeb applications now support http-only server/client configurations for
> situations when websockets are not acceptable. There were also improvements
> made to VTK to support the creation and use of Cinema and Workbench
> applications (in-situ deferred visualization) that are described in a
> SuperComputing 2015 paper “An Image-based Approach to Extreme Scale In Situ
> Visualization and Analysis”
>
> Wrapped languages have gotten a share of the attention in this release.
> There have been several fixes for ActiViz.Net which was recently updated
> from 5.8 to VTK 6.1 and will soon be updated again to 6.2. The Tcl examples
> have finally been upgraded following modularization and note that it is now
> mandatory to invoke the method Start on the instance of vtkRenderInteractor
> from Tcl. In Java, vtkPanel’s behavior was changed to better support
> advanced class loader system like OSGI. VTK’s dashboards now automatically
> build redistributable packages on Windows, Linux and Mac that will allow us
> to feed Maven.
>
> Python has received the heaviest dose of updates. Wrapped namespaces and
> enum types are now available in Python. We’ve also made significant
> improvements to the VTK-numpy integration by introducing a number of Python
> modules that provide numpy-compatible interfaces to VTK data structures.
> See http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/723 for details. We’ve also
> introduced vtkPythonAlgorithm, which makes it easier than ever to quickly
> extend VTK with filters that are written directly in Python. See
> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/737 for details.
>
> VTK’s rendering is making both evolutionary and revolutionary advances in
> this release. The evolutionary changes include the usual number of
> incremental improvements. These include such things like advanced color and
> display controls, "sticky" axes mode for vtkCubeAxesActor, out of range
> color assignments, and indexed color lookups for vtkStringArrays. There are
> also a number of text rendering improvements such as better  multiline,
> rotated, and aligned text as well as BackgroundColor and BackgroundOpacity
> options.
>
> The revolutionary changes can be found in the OpenGL2 modules. These are
> under active development at the moment, and the API will be subject to
> change in the next release, but early adopters are encouraged to try it out
> and report their experiences with it on the mailing list. OpenGL2 is a
> rewrite of VTK’s rendering backend that brings VTK up to date with modern
> OpenGL programming practices. By replacing antiquated rendering techniques
> with modern ones, we have increased rendering performance by orders of
> magnitude in some situations. This work, funded by the NIH VTK Maintenance
> grant touches both surface and volume rendering techniques. You can read
> about OpenGL2 at: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/144 and
> http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154
>
> Besides the above progress some of the most notable changes in VTK 6.2
> include
>
>    -
>
>    deprecated InfovisParallel
>    -
>
>    vtkIOXdmf3, an interface to ARL’s greatly improved interface to HDF5
>    backed data storage
>    -
>
>    added a reader and writer for NIfTI files, including the 64-bit
>    NIfTI-2 format
>    -
>
>    added support for SpaceMouse devices
>    -
>
>    external rendering support for immersive environments
>    http://kitware.com/blog/home/post/688
>    -
>
>    removed -fobjc-gc from VTK_REQUIRED_OBJCXX_FLAGS
>    -
>
>    Rewrote the OS X Cocoa mouse event handling code to make it more
>    robust.
>
>
> We hope you enjoy this release of VTK! As always contact Kitware and the
> mailing lists for assistance.
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
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Commandline options:
-DTBB_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbb.lib" -DVTK_LEGACY_REMOVE:BOOL="1" -DTBB_LIBRARY_DEBUG:FILEPATH="C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbb_debug.lib" -DTBB_MALLOC_LIBRARY_DEBUG:FILEPATH="C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbbmalloc_debug.lib" -DVTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE:STRING="TBB" -DTBB_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/include" -DQT_DBUSCPP2XML_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH="QT_DBUSCPP2XML_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND" -DModule_vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL:BOOL="0" -DModule_vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2:BOOL="1" -DBUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL="1" -DVTK_Group_Rendering:BOOL="1" -DModule_vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL2:BOOL="1" -DModule_vtkRenderingQt:BOOL="1" -DModule_vtkGUISupportQt:BOOL="1" -DModule_vtkDomainsChemistryOpenGL2:BOOL="1" -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH="C:/Dev/Qt5.4.0/5.4/msvc2013_64_opengl/bin/qmake.exe" -DModule_vtkViewsQt:BOOL="1" -DTBB_MALLOC_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbbmalloc.lib" -DModule_vtkRenderingOpenGL2:BOOL="1" -DVTK_Group_StandAlone:BOOL="1" -DVTK_QT_VERSION:STRING="5" -DVTK_RENDERING_BACKEND:STRING="OpenGL2" -DModule_vtkInteractionImage:BOOL="1" -DModule_vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2:BOOL="1" -DModule_vtkInteractionWidgets:BOOL="1" -DModule_vtkRenderingFreeTypeFontConfig:BOOL="0" -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL="1" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL="0" -DModule_vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGLNew:BOOL="0" 

Cache file:
TBB_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbb.lib
VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE:BOOL=1
TBB_LIBRARY_DEBUG:FILEPATH=C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbb_debug.lib
TBB_MALLOC_LIBRARY_DEBUG:FILEPATH=C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbbmalloc_debug.lib
VTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE:STRING=TBB
TBB_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/include
QT_DBUSCPP2XML_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=QT_DBUSCPP2XML_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND
Module_vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL:BOOL=0
Module_vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2:BOOL=1
BUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=1
VTK_Group_Rendering:BOOL=1
Module_vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL2:BOOL=1
Module_vtkRenderingQt:BOOL=1
Module_vtkGUISupportQt:BOOL=1
Module_vtkDomainsChemistryOpenGL2:BOOL=1
QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=C:/Dev/Qt5.4.0/5.4/msvc2013_64_opengl/bin/qmake.exe
Module_vtkViewsQt:BOOL=1
TBB_MALLOC_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=C:/Dev/tbb43_20141204oss/lib/intel64/vc12/tbbmalloc.lib
Module_vtkRenderingOpenGL2:BOOL=1
VTK_Group_StandAlone:BOOL=1
VTK_QT_VERSION:STRING=5
VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND:STRING=OpenGL2
Module_vtkInteractionImage:BOOL=1
Module_vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2:BOOL=1
Module_vtkInteractionWidgets:BOOL=1
Module_vtkRenderingFreeTypeFontConfig:BOOL=0
BUILD_TESTING:BOOL=1
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=0
Module_vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGLNew:BOOL=0
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