Re: [Jointtrack-devel] Mac OS X Port

[Shang M. <smu...@gm...>]

> I mean to add both the headers and libraries of each of the
> dependencies.  The idea is to have a working copy of the dependencies
> which are regarded as "current" for the project.  For example, here's
> the Blender lib directory from SVN:
> 
> http://projects.blender.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/lib/?root=bf-blender
> It has compiled versions of each dependency for each platform - just
> headers and libs.
>
> I guess this may not be important until there are more developers, but
> certainly on the Mac platform, getting all of the dependencies
> compiled is a huge pain.  Then people can use different settings when
> they're compiling, which can lead to some bizarre problems.

I should check the policy of sourceforge. If they have no problem with 
binaries, I'll be glad to do that. I'm also planning to re-organize the 
directory tree. Maybe we'll do them all together.


> I'll get back to you about that sometime.  I'll see if I can find out
> how other cross-platform apps are using VTK.  I've been wondering
> whether embedding the VTK window inside a WX window might solve some
> of the message-passing issues.  I haven't had the chance to look at
> any of it in detail yet though.
>

That's also what I've been thinking about recently. I actually thought about 
this for quite a while before replying your previous email. But I think I 
was led to the wrong way by the wrong idea of not being able to use 
vtkRenderWindowInteractor any more. We'll see.