[Paraview] Add support for PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS?
Berk Geveci
berk.geveci at kitware.com
Wed Jan 14 10:31:09 EST 2009
> My point is that PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS may be unnecessary and at
> some point may be obsolete.
PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES is useful when deploying ParaView with
extensions on a platform that does not support shared libraries (for
example Cray Xts and IBM Blue Genes).
-berk
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> John,
>
> You should talk to Tim Shead. As part of his OverView work, he is
> implementing a mechanism is ParaView in which you can define a set of
> plugins which you want loaded upon program startup. The vision is that one
> day the ParaView application will really be an empty shell the defines its
> GUI and implementation by opening a set of predefined plugins.
>
> My point is that PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS may be unnecessary and at
> some point may be obsolete.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 1/14/09 6:46 AM, "John Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
>
> There used to be a PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES - which allowed you
> to compile modules into paraview - in fact it still exists, but probably
> nobody uses it any more since plugins have improved so much.
>
> I have some users who want to compile paraview, and a couple of selected
> plugins, and then do a single "make install"
>
> I've added PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS to the main paraview cmake,
> which allows you to enter
>
> vtkCSCSCommon;vtkCSCSFluent;vtkCSCSNetCDF etc etc etc
>
> and then it prompts for paths to the sources, and compiles them at the
> same time as paraview itself.
>
> Does anyone else need this functionality? Shall I add it to cvs? It's
> very simple - but does make life easier for the less experienced users
> (to manage one build instead of two).
>
> JB
>
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