[Paraview-developers] Missing mili and CGNS support in ParaView Superbuild

[Berk Geveci]

Mili is export controlled (EAR99 I believe) and since we can't include it
in our binaries, it is up to others to build their own with Mili support.
To bring the support back, we would need someone to give us access to
latest Mili and we would need to match the need with an existing project.

Best,
-berk

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> Adding to what Ben said,
>
> 1. Mili: I believe we were never allowed to distributed mili support
> to general public (I can't remember the issues there, but maybe Berk
> remembers) and hence it's disabled in the ParaView superbuild. You
> should be manually able to enable it your build build if you have the
> prequiste mili libraries.
> 2. CGNS: The CGNS reader in ParaView itself is a better version of the
> CGNS reader, vastly improved by contributions from community member
> Mickael Philit and then enhanced further for Sandia use-cases. That's
> why the VisitBridge CGNS reader is disabled. VTK/ParaView CGNS reader
> is automatically enabled in a default build of ParaView.
>
> Utkarsh
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:08 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 20:38:20 +0000, Hennessey, Joseph G CTR USARMY
> RDECOM ARL (US) wrote:
> >> Could this be added back into ParaView (along with the ability to build
> >> mili)?
> >
> > Mili was removed in the superbuild back in 2015 and it had been
> > completely commented out (it seems it had been a plugin then).
> >
> > However, I can't find a mili upstream. All I see is mentions of
> > VisItBridge, VisIt, and lots of noise. Do you have a link to a mili
> > tarball?
> >
> >> I also looked into CGNS support
> >>
> >> In ParaView 5.3.0 cgns was directly supported by ParaView
> >>
> >>     -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_CGNS:BOOL=${cgns_enabled}
> >>     -DVISIT_BUILD_READER_CGNS:BOOL=OFF # force to off
> >>
> >> for some reason the ParaView version was pulled in 5.4.0,
> >> but the visit version from VTK was not turned on.
> >
> > It still exists in `master`. The superbuild's copy of cgns was removed
> > since ParaView imported it into its ThirdParty directory.
> >
> > The superbuild does have a CGNS reader test which is passing:
> >
> >     https://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=628752872&build=5265531
> >
> > --Ben
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