#19000: vtk 5.4.0 ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: dweber@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Enhancements Component: ports | Version: 1.7.0 Keywords: VTK vtk 5.4 | Port: vtk5 ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by dweber@…): Replying to [comment:1 raimue@…]:
Why not just update the existing vtk5? I would prefer to avoid versioning ports as much as possible.
I think vtk 5.2 may be more stable than this latest release of vtk 5.4.0. I'm not aware of other port depedencies on vtk5 and I would not like to break them by changing the upstream version from 5.2 to 5.4. Also, given the failure of this 5.4 port to install as an image, it seems safer to put it into a different port. If we get it fully working (including the shared library installation, with python wrapping), perhaps then it might become THE vtk5 port. Even if this port for 5.4.0 works, it might be wise to wait for 5.4.1 or other bug fixes before it becomes THE vtk5 port. In any case, all the include and lib install paths have the major.minor versions to allow for simultaneous installations. Apart from issues of disk space, I can't see any problem with doing that and there are advantages to this for downstream ports that may require a specific version of the library. This appears to be the case with postgresql, for instance. I don't believe anything more specific than major.minor is required. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19000#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS