[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] announce: vtk 7.0.0 release candidate 2 is ready

David E DeMarle dave.demarle at kitware.com
Thu Jan 14 17:17:50 EST 2016


I very much agree.

The only thing holding it back on the Kitware side is that we've not found
a chunk of time to sit down, think about it, and do it. Same thing goes for
putting out SDKs for the major platforms.

:(


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:07 PM, David E DeMarle
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> > I'm happy to let you know that next release candidate in the VTK 7.0
> release
> > cycle is ready for you to try. Thank you everyone who tried and provided
> > feedback and updates based on rc1.
> >
> > As usual you can find the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages
> here:
> >
> > http://www.vtk.org/download/#candidate
> >
> > 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 7.0.0 final in
> a
> > few weeks time.
> >
> > The changes from rc1 are as follows:
> > commit bc6c71ea79dc7bd7523b81aa1d1b5e6a98d57daf
> > Author: T.J. Corona <tj.corona at kitware.com>
> >
> >     Deprecating vtkVolumeRaycastMapper and vtkVolumeTextureMapper2D/3D.
> >
> > commit 6b7e888a2c2d91956af0bf8dcd8a48c9717b9d76
> > Author: Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>
> >
> >     update for newer versions of iOS
> >
> > commit a849580122154f99ab343e8ab2eb40b49c05f89d
> > Author: Boris Nagaev <bnagaev at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Fix CMake error if in directory with ++ in name.
> >
> > commit 46a54e5ab8e77d817fd6bfa0816c9e987673c896
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     BUG 15914: Fix corrupt image from vtkImageResliceMapper
> >
> > commit 69bafcd8bada56f7b307740f53635e8adc980408
> > Author: Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>
> >
> >     Fix some coverity issues
> >
> > commit fff730946a7c779fe5cb34d199a3028388e57e6f
> > Author: Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>
> >
> >     Free up memory in the point gaussian
> >
> > commit 5146150ed9d33345fe7d2d606a230a86c738dc91
> > Author: Fabian Wenzel <fabian.wenzel at philips.com>
> >
> >     Fixes QTVTKRenderWindowInteractor for python3
> >
> > commit 9d952e9283c66ed8c86fd92d54216504e9fe50ed
> > Author: T.J. Corona <tj.corona at kitware.com>
> >
> >     Fix memory leak in vtkMath::SolveLeastSquares.
> >
> > commit e7e71c4e513b93d9879a797708cf362e3cc5bf66
> > Author: Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>
> >
> >     get a 3.2 context from OS mesa using new funcs
> >
> > commit 1cbd9fde716101d363aba9d34d96feb8ecbdd856
> > Author: Zlib Upstream <kwrobot at kitware.com>
> >
> >     zlib 2015-12-14 (751703ae)
> >
> > commit ea74dd0bfcd2ab93c8b668648693f6393d8cc93c
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     zlib: remove zlib1.rc from the list of used files.
> >
> > commit 1cb28ce76d1480efe6b11d76dd83fafc038f197e
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Change deprecation warning to "VTK 7.0".
> >
> > commit 4a1fbefe00db0184aa088eaacdd08a023c666f9f
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Remove AGL.framework from OS X OPENGL_LIBRARIES.
> >
> > commit 88dfac4a47cf8cdf0aca82e649753a5f5e85fe42
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Synchronize vtkMatrix3x3 with vtkMatrix4x4.
> >
> > commit 986d4c8b75c9a2cf85e0dc5564e652d6bd48c735
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Remove warning about deprecated method usage.
> >
> > commit b5af8d4bbd5d348623c2c7451a417e07e3010c9a
> > Author: Zlib Upstream <kwrobot at kitware.com>
> >
> >     zlib 2015-12-09 (acc12639)
> >
> > commit 1ddf7372bd7ce3329033beea21dc0cc638e6e136
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Eliminate C-style casts from vtkMatrix4x4.
> >
> > commit a16e1843cf92f5159d6b002b12f0a045e9d2c161
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Rename Element parameter to element.
> >
> > commit d9c5ca00826dafabd8ddd87e409e1611f42ec621
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Mark legacy methods as "legacy".
> >
> > commit 8af584db104054a9350bb4107ada0cb1dbbb06cc
> > Author: Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>
> >
> >     ThirdParty: Improve update script default merge message behavior
> >
> > commit d0ecfc35705267e22213297a49b23550b74ded24
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Remove the legacy BTX/ETX markers.
> >
> > commit 7afac239c92064750ed9bfab24a120dc26915a57
> > Author: David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> >
> >     Move some comments so they become visible to doxygen.
> >
> > commit 3eda5f89ae77d218ba854201fa1d02f803055f48
> > Author: Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>
> >
> >     ThirdParty: Teach update script to find upstream hash in commit
> message
> >
> > commit d8fb062a7bc89b52b40ccfc71eaca7246f19022e
> > Author: Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>
> >
> >     ThirdParty: Teach update script to store upstream hash in commit
> message
> >
> > commit 51a19f27c5a03dedb35507823b0467fddf160f29
> > Author: MetaIO Upstream <kwrobot at kitware.com>
> >
> >     metaio 2015-11-23 (4c85a18e)
> >
> > commit bf1a55acb8277231d47582a756bef5b66e52f2e4
> > Author: JsonCpp Upstream <kwrobot at kitware.com>
> >
> >     jsoncpp 2015-10-01 (eb1ddde0)
> >
> > commit 0531c5612667097dc0d4244389eb2fa3ecd695d9
> > Author: Libpng Upstream <kwrobot at kitware.com>
> >
> >     png 2015-12-07 (63adbb10)
> >
> > commit 4032eee18eda3415766af236cfc5756e80bec3a6
> > Author: Zlib Upstream <kwrobot at kitware.com>
> >
> >     zlib 2015-11-18 (0abb295c)
> >
> > commit 60d6c9acdf09b7d24c456759b267ac524b2f0962
> > Author: Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> >
> >     ios: fix newline-at-end-of-file
> >
> > commit 0a5666757d84b3ad62e3fda4032dafe60d3f21f5
> > Author: Dave DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> >
> >     fix a cmake warning for users of VTK
>
> I noticed y'all are still using the standalone vtkpython as your
> binary distribution method for OSX.
>
> Do you have any plans for making a Python wheel for VTK?   It would
> make it much easier to install VTK into an existing Python
> installation, and therefore to use VTK with lots of other scientific /
> technical Python packages.
>
> I'm very happy to help with this, if you can give me some pointers as
> to how to proceed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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