[vtkusers] Python required for vtkDICOM?

[Dženan Zukić]

Sure!

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:09 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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