Re: Bug#640195: Change the bug 640195 severity to normal
Le samedi 10 septembre 2011 à 22:21 +0200, Anton Gladky a écrit :
> Dear Mathieu,
[...]
> > 1. paraview versus convenient copy of VTK. Since you are running to
> > get paraview in testing, you must have solved the very difficult issue
> > of duplicate vtk import rules in paraviewconfig.cmake file. Could you
> > please elaborate on that ?
>
> We do not know, why the upstream decided to use a patched VTK-source.
> And I am not really sure, if it is even possible to replace it by
> packaged version
> without producing a bunch of new bugs.
> If it requires a rewriting of a half of paraview, who can do it?
First, AFAIK, we don't have any proof that VTK has been heavily patched
for Paraview. It would be helpful to have some figures here.
> All previous versions of paraview included VTK, and it was not a problem.
> Why should 3.10 solve it?
It is not because we did it this way in the past that it is the right way...
And it has always been an issue before that.
Sylvestre
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