[Paraview] ParaView 3.8.0 RC1 Available for download

[Paul Melis]

Dave Partyka wrote:
> Greetings Everyone,
>
> We have just made ParaView 3.8.0 Release Candidate 1 binaries
> available for download on the ParaView download page. Final binaries
> and/or more release candidates should follow shortly after the Git
> transition occurring next week.
>
> http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html
>
> The release notes can be found here:
>
> http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/Paraview?2010_04_05&ParaView+3.8
> <http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/Paraview?2010_04_05&ParaView+3.8>
>
> One thing to note, there are now two sets of Mac Binaries. An App and
> Server Tools compiled as universal binaries that work on Tiger (10.4)
> or later and are built with Carbon.  A new addition includes a set of
> App and Server Tools compiled 64-bit with Cocoa that work on Leopard
> (10.5) and higher only.
>
> Some of the known bugs presently include:
>
> 1. Images and portions of the integrated Documentation are missing on
> some platforms.
> 2. Intermittent crashes when closing VisTrails/ParaView after loading
> the VisTrails plugin.
>
> Please feel free to try them out and provide any feedback about your
> experiences with them.
I have PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON to OFF (the default it seems as I didn't
touch it) and get this compile error with PV 3.8rc1:

[ 98%] Building CXX object
Plugins/pvblot/CMakeFiles/pvblot.dir/PVBlotPluginActionsImplementation.cxx.o
[ 98%] Building CXX object
Plugins/pvblot/CMakeFiles/pvblot.dir/moc_PVBlotPluginActionsImplementation.cxx.o
[ 98%] Building CXX object
Plugins/pvblot/CMakeFiles/pvblot.dir/pqBlotDialog.cxx.o
[ 98%] Building CXX object
Plugins/pvblot/CMakeFiles/pvblot.dir/pqBlotShell.cxx.o
In file included from
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:22:
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/VTK/Common/vtkPython.h:46:22: error:
Python.h: No such file or directory
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx: In
member function ‘virtual void pqBlotShell::promptForInput()’:
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:227:
error: ‘PyObject’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:227:
error: ‘modules’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:227:
error: ‘PySys_GetObject’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:228:
error: ‘pvblotmodule’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:228:
error: ‘PyDict_GetItemString’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:232:
error: ‘pvblotdict’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:232:
error: ‘PyModule_GetDict’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:235:
error: ‘pvblotinterp’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:238:
error: ‘promptObj’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:239:
error: ‘PyObject_GetAttrString’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:240:
error: ‘PyObject_Str’ was not declared in this scope
/scratch/paulm/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1/Plugins/pvblot/pqBlotShell.cxx:240:
error: ‘PyString_AsString’ was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [Plugins/pvblot/CMakeFiles/pvblot.dir/pqBlotShell.cxx.o]
Error 1

Should the pqBlotShell even be built in this case or should
PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON not have any influence on this?
I do have the python headers installed, btw.

Oh, and is posting to this list the preferred way to give feedback on
release candidates or would paraview-developers and/or mantis be a
better place?

Bye,
Paul