[Pythonmac-SIG] Has anyone running vtk+python on OSX?

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, aug 1, 2003, at 19:54 Europe/Amsterdam, Robb Brown wrote:

> Uh oh.  Did this change from Python 2.2 to 2.3?  Last I checked VTK 
> DOES use -flat_namespace (at least for Carbon).

Yes, it changed. And I would have dearly liked to change it for 2.2.1, 
but vtk used it, so I couldn't in the name of backward compatibility:-( 
The flat namespace is a hole big enough to drive a truck through: *any* 
global symbol used by *any* module will be satisfied by a symbol with 
the same name from anything that was by chance loaded previously. This 
will lead to spectacular crashes, that will miraculously disappear when 
you try to debug them in isolation:-)

Does vtk run on windows? If it does it must have a way around the trick 
of using symbols exported by something imported earlier. There are 
various possibilities: a common shared library used to communicate 
between the modules, a cobject with pointers exported from module A 
imported by module B, a poor mans version of the latter using a string 
with a magic name (Numeric does this)...
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