[Paraview-developers] [Paraview] ANN: ParaView 3.12.0 RC-2 available for download

[David Partyka]

I Joe, can you redownload the tarball. I forgot to include the version file
in the tarball which the version calculation code uses when there isn't a
git repository. If it still doesn't work let me know. Thanks!

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:22 PM, joseph insley <insley at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question about the source distribution of 3.12.0 RC-2.   I
> understand from a message from Utkarsh back in August that the way that
> version numbers are determined has changed, and now requires a call to "git
> describe".  After downloading the source tarball from
> http://paraview.org/files/v3.12/ParaView-3.12.0-RC2.tar.gz, my attempt to
> build failed, apparently while attempting to call git describe.  So, my
> question is, will git now become a dependency for building release versions
> of ParaView?  Or is this call currently still in there because this is still
> just a release candidate, and not yet an official release?
>
> Thanks,
> joe.
>
> On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:39 PM, David Partyka wrote:
>
> The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView
> 3.12.0 Release Candidate 2 binaries for download on the ParaView (
> http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html). ParaView 3.12 can
> be considered as a bug-fix release with over 180 issues resolved. The
> detailed list can be found at
> http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php.
>
> With Python being one of the preferred means of interacting with ParaView,
> we've added support to create animation tracks that use Python scripts to
> build highly customized animations.
>
> Plugins support is one of the strong points of ParaView and with this
> release, we've made it easier to load deployed plugins on the server
> processes as well. All distributed plugins are now listed on the client as
> well as the server side.
>
> The release includes updates to LANL's streaming framework.
> The multiresolution streaming view now automatically adjusts resolution
> to match the projected image size. Also, VTK filters are now able to modify
> meta-information which means they can modify the data while still allowing
> the streaming framework to cull and prioritize pieces. An example is a new
> spherical warp filter that projects flat data onto the globe while correctly
> tracking piece bounding boxes.
>
> Also, there are updates to support users of the cosmology and windblade
> formats. For example the MaskPoints filter (used to place glyphs and in
> other places) was updated with new options that improve random sampling in
> parallel. Likewise VTK's Gaussian Splatter filter is now exposed in ParaView
> which makes it easy to visualize point set data with imaging filters. The
> cosmo and windblade readers have also been revised.
>
> This version includes some major changes under the covers. ParaView 3.12
> includes improvements to the underpinnings of ParaView ServerManager. The
> communication layer under the ParaView ServerManager was upgraded to
> minimize communication as well as making it easier to debug and trace
> messages being exchanged between client and server. We now use
> Google Protocol Buffers, for example, to exchange messages between client
> and server.
>
> In addition, there are several small but notable improvements included in
> this release for example, the views now use caching to avoid re-renders from
> repaints due to menus and dialogs popup up on the screen; volume rendering
> of uniform grids now supports shading; ability to enable specular highlights
> when using scalar coloring and others.
>
> The updated userguide can be accessed at:
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Table_Of_Contents
>  Or in PDF form at:
> http://paraview.org/files/v3.12/ParaView%20Users%20Guide%20v3.12.pdf
>
> The development team has adopted a git-workflow-based development process
> that is integrated with the ParaView Bug Tracker (http://paraview.org/Bug).
> The workflow enables us to track every change that goes into ParaView and
> maintain a stable repository.
>
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