freecad installs 3rd party python module

[Mark Brethen]

On Jul 13, 2014, at 1:58 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Jul 12, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> freecad installs a 3rd party python module, pivy, in/opt/local/bin. Pivy is a python binding library for Coin3d, used by FreeCAD. Is this acceptable? It does not exist as a separate port.
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> Would any other software, other than freecad, ever want to use that python module?
> - If so, try to make it a separate port (or subport) that exists in all possible python versions (e.g. py27-pivy, py26-pivy, etc.).
> - If not, then it's probably fine to just have freecad install it for whatever version of python freecad is going to be using
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Any program that uses qt4 and coin with a python interface would mostly likely use pivy -- though I'm unaware of others. 

Freecad recommends python 2.6 or 2.7, so I wrote the port specifically for python27. It has the option to use an existing pivy installation.


Mark