On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 13:09 +0000, Nico Schlömer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've recently updated the VTK6 sources [1] to VTK 7.1 (with Python 3 > support), but there hasn't been any other action yet.
Nice. Python 3 support is definitely welcome. > One of the most important questions is how to name the package. Right now, we > have vtk (for VTK 5.*) and vtk6 (for everything after 5). vtk6 -> VTK 6.x series. > One possibility is to create another package, vtk7, and never touch vtk5, > vtk6 again. Another is to call it all just "vtk" from now on. (I say that not > knowing why vtk and vtk6 have been split.) > > Opinions? VTK 7.x should be co-installable with VTK 6.x and I foresee a transition period where we will have a mixture of both VTK 6 and 7 in the archive, the same way we have had VTK 5 and 6. Therefore, keeping separate source packages for each major version makes sense. Ghis
