Would anyone be interested in helping set up an Anaconda recipe to build VTK from the master branch on a nightly/periodic basis to keep the Python wheels up to date with the latest developments in VTK?
I’ve also posted an issue here but I think a new feedstock might have to be created.
@danlipsa Can the recipes you worked on be reused for this?
Yes, I think it could. VTK does not need python-optional-link.patch anymore but besides that it should work fine.
https://github.com/CDAT/conda-recipes/tree/master/vtk-cdat
I can help setting this up.
Aha, the recipes you have there are awesome, thanks for making those!
@danlipsa, I just pinged you on the GitHub issue for the conda-forge build of VTK. It appears we can’t even build dev releases on conda-forge until https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-enhancement-proposals/pull/3 is resolved.
Perhaps, we could set up a pre-release on PyPI instead where wheels are automatically uploaded on a periodic basis.
Is there a current CI service for building the PyPI wheels? Also why are the PyPI wheels still on 8.1.2 and not 8.2?
It might be a good idea to just make a VTK channel on anaconda where we can have regular builds of VTK and specialized builds that enable things like OpenVR (ref Python rendering scene to VR)