Updated Ports: vtk5 & vtk5data (version 5.3 from cvs)

[ajb78@…]

Unfortunately vtk 5.0.4 for mac seems to be quite buggy. E.g. the cocoa interface does not play well with keyboard inputs, and it takes all sorts of trickery to get the package to compile. I thus made up ports that install vtk5 version 5.3 from cvs. They work for me and seem to fix a lot of the issues that I've been having. I also removed python wrappers as a variant and added it in as a standard compile as many popular packages depend on this being present (e.g. enthought tool suite, Mayavi, paraview, ... ). Finally, since the data files are only needed to run the examples, I split that off into a separate package since most people likely do not need to install this.

I wasn't sure what version to name the package, I think others have named it version 5.1 to denote that it was the CVS version and not the release.

[ajb78@…]

vtk5 portfile for version 5.3 from cvs

[ajb78@…]

vtk5data port file (VTKData version 5.3 from cvs)

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Cc maintainer. BTW, for port updates, we'd prefer diffs rather than complete new portfiles.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

MacPorts does not provide unstable software or release candidates. Once 5.3 is out, we can update the port to this version. Until then, we could only provide a vtk5-devel port for the unstable version.

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