[vtk-developers] announce: vtk 7.0.0 release candidate 2 is ready

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:17 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> I very much agree.
>
> The only thing holding it back on the Kitware side is that we've not found a
> chunk of time to sit down, think about it, and do it. Same thing goes for
> putting out SDKs for the major platforms.
>
> :(

If you do manage to solve the pip install problem, it could have a big
impact on the use of VTK on OSX.  At the moment, users can do:

pip install numpy scipy matplotlib

etc to get the standard Python scientific packages.   If they could also do:

pip install vtk

into the same environment, this would make it very easy to get started
with using VTK.

I previously pointed to an approach to building Python wheels without
using the (somewhat obscure) standard Python distutils mechanism :
http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/Help-building-Python-wheels-for-VTK-td5728074.html#a5733760

I wonder whether something like that could work within cmake?

Cheers,

Matthew