[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] Deprecate VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND=OpenGL

[Bill Lorensen]

Thanks!

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> I have Ubuntu 16.04 (latest LTS) which has mesa 12.0. That should work fine
> with OpenGL2.
>
> The following blog mentions that OpenGL2 works with Mesa 11.1 (with a
> workaround) and with 11.2.
> https://blog.kitware.com/messing-with-mesa-for-paraview-5-0vtk-7-0/
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Does the standard ubuntu OSMesa work with opengl2
>>
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2017 9:07 AM, "Dan Lipsa" <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are working to deprecate the legacy rendering backend in VTK.
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/3262
>>>
>>> After this merge request is in, you'll get warnings if you compile using
>>> VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND=OpenGL.
>>>
>>> As with other legacy features, you can silence the warnings by setting
>>> VTK_LEGACY_SILENT=ON
>>>
>>> You can remove legacy features by defining
>>> VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE=ON
>>> In this case, you'll get an error and will be automatically switch to
>>> VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND:STRING=OpenGL2
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
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