[vtk-developers] Fixing VTK Python Installation

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Aug 19 16:20:32 EDT 2005


Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>>"Brad" == Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     >> Well, isn't the pvtkpython executable useful?  Shouldn't that
>     >> be "packaged"?
> 
>     Brad> Good point.  Yes it probably should be packaged but it can
>     Brad> still stay in PREFIX/bin.
> 
> Yes, under UNIX, distutils will install any scripts into $prefix/bin.
> Under win32 it goes into PythonX.Y/Scripts.  In this case is it not
> advisable to install these as part of the python setup.py process?

I would just leave it out in the Windows case.  It is pretty hard to 
build pvtkpython on Windows so anyone that does will know what they are 
doing anyway.

-Brad



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