I am using VTK offscreen rendering with EGL via Files :: Anaconda.org (e.g. linux-64/vtk-9.2.2-egl_py38h6ab77d2_4.tar.bz2), which works great.
However sometimes I would also like to set this up via pip, however AFAIK vtk · PyPI does not seem to include EGL - are there any plans to push the same packages also to pip?
As a background: some things are just a pain to setup with Conda because of the broken dependency solver (e.g. it complians SimpleITK would be “conflicting” with many other packages, which is not actually true) and the new “mamba” solver is still in development. I never saw such issues with pip, so it would be great to get VTK with EGL this way too. For now I am working around with different python envs, which is a poor mans solution …
Also, not sure about a PyPI release; it might have to be on a Kitware repo because of symbol conflict problems (AFAIK, we’d have to ship a Mesa build which I imagine crashes and burns if some other package tries to load a “real” OpenGL).
Ping me in about 3 months and I think we may have something worked out for this.
In the meantime, I have been building OSMesa and EGL wheel variants manually. I have some hosted here and some (work in progress) scripts to build them here. These are very unofficial and are just what I’m using right now
What would be the best way of searching https://wheels.vtk.org?
It looks minified in the browser (“only” the API responds) and pip search --index https://wheels.vtk.org vtk fails with:
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\e04004t0\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_internal\network\xmlrpc.py", line 50, in request
raise_for_status(response)
File "C:\Users\e04004t0\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_internal\network\utils.py", line 54, in raise_for_status
raise NetworkConnectionError(http_error_msg, response=resp)
pip._internal.exceptions.NetworkConnectionError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pypi.org/simple/RPC2/
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\e04004t0\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\base_command.py", line 180, in exc_logging_wrapper
status = run_func(*args)
File "C:\Users\e04004t0\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\search.py", line 57, in run
pypi_hits = self.search(query, options)
File "C:\Users\e04004t0\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\search.py", line 77, in search
hits = pypi.search({"name": query, "summary": query}, "or")
File "E:\UserData\e04004t0\python-caches\conda\envs\USValves\lib\xmlrpc\client.py", line 1122, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "E:\UserData\e04004t0\python-caches\conda\envs\USValves\lib\xmlrpc\client.py", line 1464, in __request
response = self.__transport.request(
File "C:\Users\e04004t0\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_internal\network\xmlrpc.py", line 54, in request
assert exc.response
AssertionError
