Re: Skip VTK7 and go directly VTK8? Was: Re: vtk6 and vtk7

[Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@gmail.com>]

The number of responses in the corresponding upstream bug [1] is remarkable, but it'll be hard to get a concrete statement; in the end, nobody really knows or wants to take responsibility.

Berk Geveci of Kitware says that this particular code will be removed by the end of the year, so perhaps it's best for us to remove it now already. Do actually build any of it?

Cheers,

Nico

[1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/issues/17115

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@gmail.com> wrote:

>  because it is a mess.

Indeed! This seems to be a common factor of "grown" software packages.

> FTP master was a bit wrong about the "font" file, because it is just an md5sum

You're right, I've adapted the bug report accordingly.

Cheers,

Nico

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:57 PM Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@gmail.com> wrote:

Am Mittwoch, den 06.09.2017, 10:50 +0000 schrieb Nico Schlömer:
> Gert apparently has updated some of the license terms already;
Yes, I tried to do this as good as it is possible, because it is a
mess.

> for the remaining three items, I've filed a bug over on VTK [1].
> Perhaps this will shed some light on the licencing conditions.
Thanks, I also was contemplating this.

FTP master was a bit wrong about the "font" file, because it is just an
md5sum, and I think I got the QT parts more or less.

However, the asm files "Copyright University of Utah" are a real
problem. I was already thinking that we can remove these files, because
AFAIK with the OpenGL2 interface that is enabled in vtk7 they are not
used at all.

On the dark side of things these files are all in vtk6, which means we
should clear that as well sooner or later.

Best, 
Gert