[Dcmlib] R: R: R: Re: GDCM with VTK5 ?

[luca.picello at libero.it]

> > I think Kitware should be more clear on VTK5.x branches and their 
> > deployment.
> 
> I believe this is something pretty common on the software 
> industry. You have a main branch and then patch release. 
> Think of gcc as an example. 
> You have right now gcc 4.0 which is the new SSA optimization 
> branch. But now on my debian I have gcc 4.0.3 since a couple 
> of bugs where fixed.
> Same goes for VTK you can download VTK 5.0.0 as a tarball and 
> since we made a couple of fixes there should be soon a 5.0.1 
> tarball. Or if you download VTK-5-0 from CVS then yes you 
> have the latest VTK from the 5-0 branch, without having to 
> wait for the tarball...but then this is not officially 
> supported by Kitware.
> 
> does this make sense ?


more or less. It could be nice to have it written somewhere. 
Anyway I dont understand why now VTK is 5.1.0... (not 5.0.1).
In my imagination it had to be a new version, not a fix. That's why I did
not try it at the beginning... and I continued to beat my (hard) head on
"stable" issues...


> 
> > Proud to help the community,
> 
> Thanks for your help again !
> 
> Mathieu

And the same for GDCM...
any documentation update is planned?


/me is lost *_*
Luca