[vtk-developers] Fixing VTK Python Installation
Prabhu Ramachandran
prabhu_r at users.sf.net
Wed Aug 17 21:02:33 EDT 2005
>>>>> "Brad" == Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> writes:
Brad> Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>> We need to decide on the following:
>> 1. vtk*PythonD, vtk*Python or vtk*Python, vtk*PythonM?
Brad> I like the latter but it is working now. There may be
Brad> problems with getting the init functions to have the proper
Brad> name with an M extension.
Yes, I agree that we should leave things be since everything works
now.
>> 2. Versioning vtkpython, pvtkpython.
Brad> I think we should just ignore these executables from the
Brad> python packaging perspective. I'm not even sure they should
Brad> be installed at all. They are meant for running tests. The
Brad> only reason it makes sense to install the Tcl executable
Brad> "vtk" is because it can be built with static libraries where
Brad> the system "tclsh" could not load them. Since the python
Brad> wrappers require shared libs anyway the system "python"
Brad> should always be able to load them from an installation.
Right, so I'll remove the vtkpython stuff from the setup.py.in when
possible.
cheers,
prabhu
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