[vtkusers] vtkSmartPoint() changed? Current VTK-git won't build...

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 00:22:10 -0700, JIA Pei wrote:
> > 2) In addition, I noticed that current python support is still 2.7.x.
> > What about 3.5.x ? I transformed python files to be 3.x compatible by
> > command "2to3“, it seems to be OK, but I'm NOT 100% sure about that.
>
> We support and test Python3 (3.3, 3.4, and 3.5). There is the
> VTK_PYTHON_VERSION variable which you can use to select which one to
> use.
>
> In any case, there is CPython code that 2to3 wouldn't have touched.

I usually build with Python 3, and use system libraries including
FreeType. I just checked master, and I am able to compile with system
FreeType, Python 3 and the OpenGL 2 backend with no issues. This
sounds like something more specific to the remote examples module.