[MacPorts] #21186: vtk5 +carbon +python variants fail to build on Snow Leopard

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#21186: vtk5 +carbon +python variants fail to build on Snow Leopard
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 Reporter:  stefan.janecek@…       |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.8.0                                
 Keywords:                         |        Port:  vtk5                                 
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Changes (by dweber@…):

 * cc: jjstickel@… (added)


Comment:

 I'm very busy in my paid job lately - my apologies for not keeping up with
 things here in MacPorts.

 Hmmm, so many issues to consider in these posts.  I'm playing things safe
 in my work, staying with Leopard for a while, until many of Snow Leopard
 bugs and many of the upstream development bugs are fixed for this new OS
 release.

 My guess is that the dependency on carbon should be phased out.  The main
 display libraries on OSX should move to cocoa (hence that is the default
 for vtk-devel).  Having said that, it doesn't help fix these issues
 quickly.  It looks like the vtk-devel build fails because it was not
 programmed for 64bit carbon, so that's an upstream issue to post with
 kitware and see what they can do about it.  I'm not aware of their policy
 on supporting bug fixes for carbon going forward with Snow Leopard etc.
 for the OSX platform.

 I've never used mayavi or looked into the dependency issues for the build
 and install.  Are we talking about 'py25-mayavi'?  The default for vtk-
 devel is to install wrappers for python2.6, but it's also got a variant
 for python2.5 (haven't started looking at python3.0).

 It looks like the mayavi port may need some attention to bring it up to
 speed with developments in the dependency tree, including py26, vtk-devel,
 and/or wxPython.  I would be looking at ways to get away from carbon at
 this point.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21186#comment:7>
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