On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran<pra...@aero.iitb.ac.in> wrote: > > On 07/08/09 10:56, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> I'll rebuild VTK on my mac tonight and check how that works. >> >> Many thanks for the update and for working on it. If it cannot be used >> offscreen, then I think it's a showstopper, that will create Mac a >> second class platform, that is incapable of hosting the sage notebook >> over ssh. > > Well, without a rebuild I tried running an offscreen script via an > ssh-session and no login with my existing framework build (i.e. not on > Sage). It fails to run since console access is needed. So, for pure > offscreen work an X11 build will be necessary. This is entirely similar > to the situation on Linux. With mesa you don't get the best hardware > acceleration but get pure offscreen. But with hardware acceleration you > still seem to need to create a window. So it looks like there have to > be two separate packages, one with offscreen+X11 and the other as a > framework build for the UI. > > The framework build approach is easy to do. The X11 approach seems to > require patching VTK as the visit developers have done. Would this > work? My guess is that this should be acceptable if we make it easy > enough to do as two separate spkgs. Only the VTK package would need to > be changed to enable one or the other.
So does this mean we have to ship two VTK packages? It's a big package and it takes forever to compile, so I am not really keen to have to compile it twice. What about mayavi? Would that have to be compiled and shipped twice too? That would be bad. Ondrej Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
