Re: state of VTK-8 (upgrading paraview)?

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On 2019-03-21 14:51, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Hi Gert and other VTK keepers,
>
> what's the state of VTK-8 for Debian?
>
> The reason I ask is that I need a newer version of paraview to view
> complex XDMF mesh data.  I tried building the new paraview versions
> (5.5, 5.6), but the amount of VTK patching required (to build against
> vtk6 or vtk7) is impossibly large, with new definitions of VTK via
> cmake modules etc. (VTK source is no longer provided in the paraview
> source tarball). Given the timelines I presume these paraview versions
> were released against VTK-8 and so will build more easily against
> VTK-8.
>
> help needed!
>
> Drew


Hi Kyle, I meant to cc: you for this discussion, but google was tardy in 
helping me find you.

Drew