Re: Preparation for VTK 5.4
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:47 AM, A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre writes:
> > I have added a couple of bugs, I'd like to get fixed for VTK 5.4.
>
> These weren't to bad to fix:
> Bug#552341: python-vtk: Suggest mayavi2 instead of removed mayavi
> Bug#552343: vtk-doc: Remove md5 doxygen generated files
> Bug#552352: libvtk5.2: Please turn VTK_X3D_USE_JAVA option ON
> Bug#552353: libvtk5-dev: vtkEncodeString is not packaged
> Bug#552354: libvtk5.2: Please turn option VTK_USE_BOOST on
> Bug#552357: libvtk5.2: Please turn option VTK_USE_MPI to ON
> Bug#552359: libvtk5.2: Please turn option VTK_USE_MYSQL to ON
Fantastic !
> Perhaps my patch for the new FFMPEG swscale API can make it upstream...
> Bug#552356: libvtk5.2: Please turn VTK_USE_FFMPEG_ENCODER option ON
> Some testing is in order. I haven't done any.
Will do. Thx
> This will likely be tagged wontfix:
> Bug#552358: libvtk5.2: It would be nice to have VTK_USE_CG_SHADERS:ON
> ...there is also VTK_USE_GLSL_SHADERS.
> I don't know the plans for GLSL in Debian, osgppu isn't in the archive yet.
Ok, I think you put in the option to OFF. I'll see if I can easily do
the src build from the official package, simply switching the option
to ON (+installing nv package stuff)
> I pulled a fix for gl2ps out of Kitware CVS (Thanks: Mathieu Malaterre):
> (ENH: Add new option: VTK_USE_SYSTEM_GL2PS, to be able to use a system installed gl2ps library.)
> Bug#552363: libvtk5.2: Need to use system gl2ps library instead of convenient copy
nice !
> There doesn't seem to be similar configurability for these:
> Bug#552348: libvtk5.2: Need to use system sqlite instead of convenient copy vtksqlite
> Bug#552349: libvtk5.2: Use system libftgl instead of convenient copy
> Bug#552350: libvtk5.2: Should use system netcdf
> Similar need applies to libproj, need to use Debian libproj-dev and libproj0.
libproj is VTK 5.4 AFAIK. But I'll try to the do the 3 others.
> I'll be happy to pull fixes for Bug#552348, Bug#552348, Bug#552348 from
> Kitware CVS if they show up there. Or, feel free to submit patches on
> the Debian bugs. Otherwise I'll try to get to them myself Real Soon Now.
I am ok with #552349, #552348, #552350 open for now, but instead
please provide a fix for #533193, this one is really annoying.
Thanks,
--
Mathieu
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