[vtk-developers] New module system preview

[David E DeMarle]

Timeouts were a problem with conda too.


On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:15 PM David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:18 PM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> > * Building any VTK module either externally or along with the VTK
>> project
>> > ?  (e.g this will be useful for creating python wheels)
>>
>> I'm not sure the use case is clear to me. How are Python wheels related
>> to remote modules?
>>
>
> Package managers like to be able to subdivide VTK into multiple packages.
> Being able to modularize the build itself, so that VTK can be built
> kit-by-kit
> instead of all at once, is a logical extension of the multiple package
> idea.
> If I recall correctly, the CI system for pypi was failing to build VTK due
> to
> timeouts (I'm not sure what the workaround was, I suspect that Prabhu
> built the wheels manually).
>
> On a related note, we definitely want to be able to build remote modules
> against an installed VTK.  Currently my vtk-dicom remote module has two
> parallel sets of cmake logic: one for when it builds as a remote module,
> and
> another for when it builds against VTK binaries.  It would be nice if
> building
> a remote module externally "just worked".
>
>   David
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