[Paraview-developers] Making python a requirement

[Berk Geveci]

Are we talking about requiring Python for client functionality or
server functionality?

I expect that we will be relying more and more on Python for some
things such as the Pyhon calculator on the server side.

-berk

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> In systems where shared object libraries are not supported, compiling Python
> can be a pain.  It therefore sometimes handy to turn off compiling with
> Python if you don’t need it.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 5/6/10 1:08 PM, "pat marion" <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not suggesting we do this right now, but I'm curious, is there anybody
> who objects to making python a requirement for building paraview?  Does
> anyone deploy paraview with python off?
>
> If you set static build + python, cmake will complain, but in fact static
> builds with python work fine.
>
> Pat
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: A M <arsham at uga.edu>
> Date: Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:31 PM
> Subject: [Paraview] Compiling Paraview On Win Python.h
> To: paraview at paraview.org
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have an issue that I am not sure how to solve, I was wondering if someone
> could help me please:
>
> I am trying to compile Paraview on windows platform using visual studio, I
> have QT and VTK  installed correctly but when I compile the source code I
> get an error which says it can not find Python.h library, the issue here is
> that when I CMake'd the source code I didn't check the option for the python
> scripting therefore I am not sure why I am getting such an error, that would
> be unless some other parts of Paraview is using Python.h. How can I solve
> this problem so the compilation can contiiue!? do I need to download python?
> is there a specific library that I need to download for visual studio? any
> help is really appreciated!
>
>
>
>
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