[vtkusers] vtkStreamer and vtkFunctionSet

[Andy Cedilnik]

Also libraries such as HDF5 are problematic for several reasons. An
example is the way they do memory management. Purify always detect
memory leaks even though they are not actual leaks. Another major
drawback of including HDF5 and NetCDF is that every time we include
another library in VTK, somebody has to port it to CMake, make it work
on all platforms, maintain the compatibility with new versions, etc. The
CMake 1.4 will solve the problem of linking libraries to your projects,
but the libraries will have to be present for all projects even for
those who do not use HDF5 and NetCDF.

			Andy

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 08:27, Berk Geveci wrote:
> Oh, did I not mention that we are working on a new (XML based) file
> format ? :-) This doesn't mean that VTK shouldn't support HDF and
> netCDF. I believe it should. We have experimented with both and 
> have some readers for specific versions of both. The main problem is
> that they are very general and require additional information describing
> which arrays correspond to geometry, which to data etc. Also, netCDF and
> HDF readers would require additional libraries since we don't want
> to distribute the libaries with VTK.