[Insight-developers] PROPOSAL: Change default build type to "Release"

[Gaëtan Lehmann]

Le 25 juil. 11 à 03:54, Bradley Lowekamp a écrit :

> I agree that changing the default to RelWithDebInfo or Release make  
> sense.
>

I agree - one of those two would be good.

> However, please keep in mind that this will only impact the example  
> and tests inside ITK. As ITK is mostly a template library, there is  
> very little pre-compiled image processing library code that will be  
> used in a user's application. So this change will have little impact  
> on the noob who  start building there one app based on an example  
> and doesn't set this CMake variable.

Maybe we can change it in the UseITK.cmake file.
That sound a bit too intrusive though...

Gaëtan

>
> Brad
>
>
> On Jul 23, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Johnson, Hans J wrote:
>
>> ITK developers,
>>
>> One of the most common reasons for not using ITK is a perception  
>> that it is really slow.  In my experience of working with newcomers  
>> to ITK, I find that their first experience (and often their first  
>> year of experience) is with the most default build of ITK  
>> possible.  It is very common that the first impressions of ITK are  
>> based on whatever is produced by "mkdir –p ITK-build; cmake ../ITK;  
>> make".
>>
>> Mostly as a marketing tactic to improve initial impressions of ITK,  
>> I'd suggest that the "mkdir –p ITK-build; cmake ../ITK; make"  
>> builds ITK in "Release" mode.
>>
>> I'd like to have an e-mail based discussion on the PRO's/CON's of  
>> this proposal so that we can hopefully have a quick discussion on  
>> next Friday's T-CON.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hans
>>
>> PS: Conversation Starters:
>>
>> -- I've always been a bit surprised that the cmake default is ""  
>> rather than either "Release" or "Debug",  What does a  
>> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE  of "" convey to a new user?
>> -- Along with the current work to set more optimized set of default  
>> compiler flags (I.e. -Wall should be a default compiler flag) what  
>> other build defaults should be made to portray ITK in the best  
>> possible light to end-users.
>>
>>
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