[SciPy-dev] removing wx-related weave code (was test errors blocking 0.7.x branch)

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

On 01/29/09 08:55, Nathan Bell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran
> <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, testing this requires the use of nasty external
>> resources.  In particular it requires that VTK be installed and that
>> weave be told where to find the VTK headers and libraries.  In any case,
>> I modified the paths suitably in the example corresponding to my
>> system's VTK setup and it seems to work fine -- note that I'm using
>> version 0.6.0 that ships with Ubuntu rather than SVN.
> 
> This speaks in favor of distributing the package separately from SciPy.

For one single file (vtk_spec.py) that adds optional support for VTK and 
does not affect anything else?  Or are you saying all of weave should be 
separately packaged because of other reasons?

cheers,
prabhu