[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#550494: python-insighttoolkit3: reactivate ITK_USE_PYTHON_NUMARRAY=ON

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:24:43PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Package: python-insighttoolkit3
> Version: 3.16.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> [This is mostly a reminder for later on]
> 
> starting ITK 3.16 the support for ITK_USE_PYTHON_NUMARRAY was set to OFF.
> 
> In order to reactivate the support, package needs to migrate to numpy instead of numarray.
> 
> Ref:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2009/09/msg00115.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2009/09/msg00122.html
> 
> However it seems we need to switch as the same time to WrapITK. 

That's not clear to me.  There was a vague claim that the cswig-based
numpy code was not as robust as the WrapITK-based numpy code.
However, it may still be true that the former is still acceptable.

Switching the wrapping scheme changes the API, at least in the python
case (not sure whether tcl is similarly affected).  Making this switch
breaks a lot (perhaps all?) existing code that Debian users may have.
Therefore, I'm somewhat reluctant to switch before upstream makes the
switch.

On the other hand, I'm certainly willling to switch if the user base
prefers to use WrapITK.

Thanks,
-Steve
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