Would you be willing to describe what you *did* expect from the "Windows Installer" given what you read about it on the downloads page...?<br><br>What verbiage would you recommend to make it clear that the Windows installer installs a pre-built VTK executable that allows you to run VTK TCL scripts?
<br><br>Or is it more the case that we should just eliminate the Windows Installer since there are no libraries / source code in it....?<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>David Cole<br>Kitware, Inc.<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
<br><br><br>On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andreas Keil</b> <<a href="mailto:andreas.keil@cs.tum.edu">andreas.keil@cs.tum.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I must admint that I was also mislead by the "Windows Installer" in the<br>download section.<br><br>Andreas<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vtkusers-bounces+andreas.keil=<a href="mailto:cs.tum.edu@vtk.org">
cs.tum.edu@vtk.org</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:vtkusers-bounces+andreas.keil=cs.tum.edu@vtk.org">vtkusers-bounces+andreas.keil=cs.tum.edu@vtk.org</a>] On Behalf Of<br>David Goldsmith<br>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 15:41
<br>To: vtk<br>Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Windows installer for 5.0.3<br><br>David Cole wrote:<br>> That installer merely installs a pre-built "vtk.exe" for Windows such<br>> that you can run VTK Tcl scripts...
<br>Then the Windows installer should tell the unsuspecting user that that<br>is all that it is doing (and indicate that if the user wants to actually<br>develop software w/ VTK, one has to download the source and build it "by
<br>hand," as w/ any other platform, the point being it is *misleading* to<br>offer an installer for Windows and no other platform - it gives the<br>impression that for Windows, one need only run the installer, not go
<br>through all the machinations one needs to on other platforms). Given<br>the pace of modern life, it is unrealistic to expect users to read the<br>excessive verbiage that people put on download pages, but it is<br>realistic to expect people to read a big flashing "WARNING" sign put
<br>either at the beginning (preferably) or end of an Install wizard.<br>> Given the number of compilers/platforms in use these days, it's<br>> impractical to ship a useful "make install" tree or binary libraries
<br>> for VTK.<br>Yet you offer an Installer for VTK Tcl scripts, but only for Windows -<br>why show Windows preferential treatment here but not elsewhere? I'm not<br>suggesting you ship "make install" trees and/or binaries for all
<br>compiler/platform combinations (though your complaint rings hollow:<br>given the amount of time clearly spent just developing the software, it<br>seems like a rather marginal extra investment to develop said<br>trees/binaries), merely that you better "dummy-proof" what you do "ship."
<br>> For VTKConfig.cmake, or libraries to link your own programs against,<br>> download or pull the source tree from CVS, as detailed at<br>> <a href="http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php">http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php
</a> and then build it with CMake and<br>> your favorite compiler/build system.<br>TLTL,<br><br>DG<br>><br>> HTH,<br>> David<br>><br>><br>> On 6/27/07, *David Goldsmith* <<a href="mailto:David.L.Goldsmith@noaa.gov">
David.L.Goldsmith@noaa.gov</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:David.L.Goldsmith@noaa.gov">David.L.Goldsmith@noaa.gov</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.vtk.org/files/release/5.0/vtk-5.0.3-win32.exe">
http://www.vtk.org/files/release/5.0/vtk-5.0.3-win32.exe</a><br>><br>> appears not to install VTKConfig.cmake (and who knows what else...)<br>><br>> DG<br>> --<br>> ERD/ORR/NOS/NOAA<br>> <
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