[vtk-developers] New module system preview

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

On 11/8/18 3:15 PM, David Gobbi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:18 PM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com
> <mailto: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).

Yes, I built the wheels with the VTKPythonPackage,
(https://github.com/KitwareMedical/VTKPythonPackage), it is largely automated
but I did build it by hand and uploaded it. 

I am not sure if this is still broken with 8.2 and hope to check this weekend.

cheers,

Prabhu

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