[arch-general] VTK package is outdated
Hi, The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858 Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I don't know how to contact the package maintainer Thank you Nicola
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca <nicola.bizzoca@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858
Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I don't know how to contact the package maintainer
It is flagged as out of date as you can see here [1] I guess the maintainer has his reasons for not updating. Probably compatibility with other packages. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/vtk/
On 13 June 2015 at 17:33, Simon Hanna <j0k3ing@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca <nicola.bizzoca@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858
Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I don't know how to contact the package maintainer
It is flagged as out of date as you can see here [1] I guess the maintainer has his reasons for not updating. Probably compatibility with other packages.
VTK has some open tasks in our bugtracker and, the last time I checked, does not build as-is for the latest 6.x release. The previous maintainer did the work on getting 6.x to build so it should be fine for the time-being. Resolving the open issues and updating it will require a bit of time that I haven't managed but anyone's welcome to help and I'll apply any necessary changes. If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of.
What about packages like opencascade[1] that depend on VTK? Also it might take quite a long time to build from AUR. I think it's better to keep it in the community repository as is for now. I might take a look at it and try to fix build issues at some point. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/opencascade/ -- Andrejs Mivreņiks PGP Key Fingerprint: 3872 5DEB BCA5 9460 09B2 E867 F34B C7DA D782 DAB8 On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, at 15:07, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
On 13 June 2015 at 17:33, Simon Hanna <j0k3ing@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca <nicola.bizzoca@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858
Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I don't know how to contact the package maintainer
It is flagged as out of date as you can see here [1] I guess the maintainer has his reasons for not updating. Probably compatibility with other packages.
VTK has some open tasks in our bugtracker and, the last time I checked, does not build as-is for the latest 6.x release. The previous maintainer did the work on getting 6.x to build so it should be fine for the time-being.
Resolving the open issues and updating it will require a bit of time that I haven't managed but anyone's welcome to help and I'll apply any necessary changes. If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of.
-- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
On 15 June 2015 at 11:25, Andrejs Mivreņiks <ml@gim.fastmail.fm> wrote:
If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of.
What about packages like opencascade[1] that depend on VTK? Also it might take quite a long time to build from AUR. I think it's better to keep it in the community repository as is for now. I might take a look at it and try to fix build issues at some point.
Thanks and, don't worry, no packages will be dropped if they are in use. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
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Andrejs Mivreņiks
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Nicola Bizzoca
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Rashif Ray Rahman
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Simon Hanna