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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Perhaps Tim’s plugins should also have an option to compile in statically. There is a lot of interest in running infovis capabilities on these platforms.<BR>
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-Ken<BR>
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On 1/14/09 8:31 AM, "Berk Geveci" <<a href="berk.geveci@kitware.com">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>> My point is that PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS may be unnecessary and at<BR>
> some point may be obsolete.<BR>
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PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES is useful when deploying ParaView with<BR>
extensions on a platform that does not support shared libraries (for<BR>
example Cray Xts and IBM Blue Genes).<BR>
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-berk<BR>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <<a href="kmorel@sandia.gov">kmorel@sandia.gov</a>> wrote:<BR>
> John,<BR>
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> You should talk to Tim Shead. As part of his OverView work, he is<BR>
> implementing a mechanism is ParaView in which you can define a set of<BR>
> plugins which you want loaded upon program startup. The vision is that one<BR>
> day the ParaView application will really be an empty shell the defines its<BR>
> GUI and implementation by opening a set of predefined plugins.<BR>
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> My point is that PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS may be unnecessary and at<BR>
> some point may be obsolete.<BR>
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> -Ken<BR>
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> On 1/14/09 6:46 AM, "John Biddiscombe" <<a href="biddisco@cscs.ch">biddisco@cscs.ch</a>> wrote:<BR>
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> There used to be a PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES - which allowed you<BR>
> to compile modules into paraview - in fact it still exists, but probably<BR>
> nobody uses it any more since plugins have improved so much.<BR>
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> I have some users who want to compile paraview, and a couple of selected<BR>
> plugins, and then do a single "make install"<BR>
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> I've added PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS to the main paraview cmake,<BR>
> which allows you to enter<BR>
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> vtkCSCSCommon;vtkCSCSFluent;vtkCSCSNetCDF etc etc etc<BR>
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> and then it prompts for paths to the sources, and compiles them at the<BR>
> same time as paraview itself.<BR>
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> Does anyone else need this functionality? Shall I add it to cvs? It's<BR>
> very simple - but does make life easier for the less experienced users<BR>
> (to manage one build instead of two).<BR>
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> JB<BR>
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