Re: [geclipse-user] VTK Status

["Kenneth Evans, Jr." <evans@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas,

Thanks for the reply.  I found the non-EPL part at:

:ext:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/data/cvs/fzk/geclipse

(which is slightly different than below).  It has the VTK stuff I wanted.  I
had already written my own org.vtk VTK plug-in, which I have only
implemented on Windows to date.  It seems to be working and currently uses
VTK 5.4.0 (5.4.2 is out) built with Visual Studio 9.  I seem to be able to
use it in RCP applications.  It is a question of whether it is worth the
trouble of building and distributing all that native code to get VTK
benefits, to say nothing of getting it working right for a user on his
system.

It looks like it would be beneficial to rewrite vtkPanel to use SWT (maybe
vtkComposite ?) for plug-ins and RCP applications.

So far I have been unable to use g-Eclipse for grid access.  We have Globus
installed, but the IT people are not very familiar with it (nor am I beyond
globus-url-copy ;-).  I have made a generic VO, but don't know what to do
with it.  I am stuck at what to put in "Specify a service to be added to
your VO". We do have GridFTP working, but I don't know how to use it in
g-Eclipse.  I am proceeding on a "as time allows" basis.

        -Ken

-----Original Message-----

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:03:45 +0100
From: Thomas K?ckerbauer <tkoeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [geclipse-user] VTK Status
To: "g-Eclipse User discussions" <geclipse-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dieter Kranzlmueller <kranzlmueller@xxxxxxxxxx>,	Christof
	Klausecker <klauseck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <200911022103.47517.tkoeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,

Currently work on g-Eclipse is only done on a best effort basis since there
is 
no funding at the moment. In addition in my case it is also difficult to 
contribute right now since I'm doing my civil service at the moment.
We are interested to continue work on it and if you have requests or there
are 
things that have to be fixed we would be happy to hear about it, but it
might 
take some time that we can implement it.
If you want to work together on something we also would be interested.

The source code of g-Eclipse is split onto two repositories. The plugins
that 
are under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) (or compatible licenses) are in
the 
Eclipse.org SVN. Plugins with other licenses (or depend on a non-EPL plugin)

are in a separate repository. This is due to the licensing policies of 
Eclipse.org. (VTK is under a BSD license and it is very likely that it would

fulfill the requirements for getting on the Eclipse.org repository, but it
did 
not go through the necessary Eclipse intellectual property process yet)

The EPL part can be found at:
svn://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/eu.geclipse
See also: http://www.eclipse.org/geclipse/contributing.php

The non-EPL part can be fount at:
:ext:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxx:/cvs/fzk/geclipse - subdirectory
/geclipse/development
See also: http://savannah.fzk.de/cvs/?group=geclipse


Best wishes,
Thomas
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