[vtk-developers] Removed "lib" prefix from python modules

[pat marion]

Not sure if you've done this already David, but there are two files in
paraview that will need updating:

CoProcessing/CoProcessor/CMakeLists.txt:SET(PYTHON_MODULE_PREFIX
${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX})
Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/Executable/CMakeLists.txt:
SET(PYTHON_MODULE_PREFIX "lib")

PYTHON_MODULE_PREFIX can be left undefined, or set to the empty string.  It
is used by FindPythonLibs.cmake to create "init[prefix][modulename]()"
references.

Pat

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:34 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've made the bold move of removing the "lib" prefix from the python
>> modules when they are built in unix-like environments.  So "if os.name
>> == 'posix':" in all the .py files that load the modules is no longer
>> necessary.
>>
>
> I think this is a great change, and it was on my todo list.
>
>>
>> In order to minimize the breakage in external packages, I create
>> symlinks in the bin directory:
>> libvtkCommonPython.so -> vtkCommonPython.so
>>
>> This means that ParaView will not break (I've tested it) and hopefully
>> other packages won't break, either.  However, I'd recommend that all
>> external packages switch their .py files and cmake files over to the
>> new prefix-less style.
>>
>> I will take care of that in Titan. Thanks for pushing this in, I never
> liked the if/else logic necessary just to load a Python module.
>
> Marcus
>
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