[vtk-developers] Fixing VTK Python Installation
Brad King
brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Aug 15 18:17:35 EDT 2005
Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
> Brad> Do you know why the suffix "D" was chosen? It makes it look
> Brad> like a debug library. Should we switch to calling the
> Brad> shared libraries "vtk*Python" and the loadable modules
> Brad> "vtk*PythonM"? The actual names of the python modules are
> Brad> not really public...they are used only inside the vtk *.py
> Brad> code that loads them.
>
> I really don't know why 'D' was chosen at all. vtk*Python and
> vtk*PythonM sounds OK to me. The only thing is long time VTK users
> would remember that once upon a time, there was only vtk*Python and
> these were imported directly (from libvtkCommonPython import *). So
> they might get a little confused. What do the others think?
On second thought, it's working now with the current names. Let's just
leave it at least until after the release.
-Brad
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