Package build trees or package build configuration

[thewtex]

@prabhuramachandran we would like to create Python packages for the ITK-VTK Glue from this ITK module.

We publish the ITK Python package build trees so we can build Python packages from ITK modules on GitHub.

For the itk-vtkglue Python package, we will also need the VTK sources, compiler, configuration -- and the build tree would be nice. Is it possible to get tarballs of the VTK build tree and source tree that was used to create the Python packages uploaded to PyPI? Or, can you just list what compiler, VTK version, and build configurations were used?

@jcfr @demarle

[prabhuramachandran]

@thewtex -- I may not have them all handy and definitely don't have Linux 3.6 as I needed to test 8.1.1. Which specific OS do you want, Python version? Or do you want them all? Can I just give you the CMakeCache.txt? Do let me know what you would prefer.

[jcfr]

I think we should only target Python 3.5 and above on all platforms.

• For Linux, we should use manylinux-x64 image.
• For macOS, 10.12 will work.
• For windows, Visual Studio 2015 will work

The idea is to build the wheel, then package the build tree so that we can use it to build external module as python wheel using the packaged build tree.

[jcfr]

xref #20

[thewtex]

• Linux (addressed by Update to 8.1.1, manylinux improvements, add scripts/dockcross-manylinux-build-tarball.sh #20)
• macOS
• Windows

Builds are uploaded to the GitHub Releases:

https://github.com/KitwareMedical/VTKPythonBuilds

[thewtex]

xref #21