[vtk-developers] Fixing VTK Python Installation

[Brad King]

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