[vtkusers] Python required for vtkDICOM?

[David Gobbi]

Would you be willing to do some more testing, when I submit patches for
this? ;-)

 - David


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks David.
>
> I was just testing, I did not need vtkDICOM.
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:59 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it normal that Python libraries are required when vtkDICOM module is
>>> enabled? Otherwise it is a bug in VTK 6.3.0.
>>>
>>> Just enabling vtkDICOM module requires Python libraries.
>>>
>>
>> The "remote modules" feature was added just before the VTK 6.3 release,
>> and of course it can benefit from additional testing.  The CMakeLists.txt
>> in
>> vtk-dicom itself don't yet fit cleanly into the needed "modular"
>> configuration.
>> Bill did a couple passes through the cmake code to get things working, and
>> I meant to do a sweep through the code myself last weekend to clean things
>> up, but I've been overextended recently.
>>
>> Hopefully, everything will be tidy by VTK 7 (whenever that will be) and
>> if there is a VTK 6.4, it'll be fixed there, too.
>>
>> But for now, I recommend that people using VTK 6.3 (or earlier) build
>> vtk-dicom separately rather than enable it as a remote module.
>>
>>  - David
>>
>>
>
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