Re: VTK7

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 13:09 +0000, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've recently updated the VTK6 sources [1] to VTK 7.1 (with Python 3 support), but there hasn't been any other action yet.

Nice. Python 3 support is definitely welcome.

> One of the most important questions is how to name the package. Right now, we have vtk (for VTK 5.*) and vtk6 (for everything after 5).

vtk6 -> VTK 6.x series.

>  One possibility is to create another package, vtk7, and never touch vtk5, vtk6 again. Another is to call it all just "vtk" from now on. (I say that not knowing why vtk and vtk6 have been split.)
> 
> Opinions?

VTK 7.x should be co-installable with VTK 6.x and I foresee a
transition period where we will have a mixture of both VTK 6 and 7 in
the archive, the same way we have had VTK 5 and 6. Therefore, keeping
separate source packages for each major version makes sense.

Ghis