[Paraview-developers] Goodbye windows, Hello Mac

[David E DeMarle]

Anyone notice how John's emails sounded way swankier they usually used to?

+1 ninja on all platforms

my entry in the survey is:
eclipse, falling back to emacs +(ethan-wspace, vtkcstyle, cmake-mode and
cmake-rename-buffer, textmate), falling back to vi, all with gdb


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:00 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi John,
>
>
> **** Unfortunately, development of paraview under windows has become
> almost impossible due to the combination of cmake-2.8.x/VS2012 and whatever
> else which means that projects constantly rebuild and my development time
> has gone from seconds/minutes to hours for any turnaround.
>
> Having been frustrated by the unacceptable time consumed by MSVC building
> PV, I recently switched to ninja which can drive the MSVC compiler. It
> makes PV build as fast on Windows as it is on Linux. This blog post
> explains http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/434
>
>
>
> In addition, the mpich people have dropped support for windows (I need
> MPI-3) and some new projects I’m working on have toolchains which I can’t
> get going on my windows machine - at least not without considerable pain
> anyway]
>
> Open MPI has dropped support too. as far as I now the only one now is MS
> MPI. It works fine but is still MPI 2.
>
>
> This is a little off topic, so I apologise in advance, but I’d like to
> know what other paraview developers are using on the mac.
>
> gcc + vim + gdb. Extremly reliable, works in parallel. Unfortunately,
> probably not what you're after....
>
> Burlen
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2013 02:31 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote:
>
>  After many years developing primarily on a windows machine (and linux
> based servers), I am dumping my existing laptop and getting a new Macbook
> pro.****
>
> ** **
>
> Since I’ll be developing ParaView (and other applications), can others
> here tell me which combinations of IDE and debugger they use. I’ve
> experimented with Eclipse on linux and found it to be very nice IDE
> (compared to using VI) , but debugging is not great and the time to parse
> large projects like paraview for code completion etc can be traumatizing.
> Parallel work using PTP is ok on some of our machines, so I’ll be using it
> anyway … ****
>
> ** **
>
> …but I’d like to know about XCode, QtCreator, emacs? others.****
>
> ** **
>
> Can anyone offer any advice on what I should try first. I have been
> accustomed to using the debugger in VS for about 90% of my daily work and I
> regard it as first class. I can attach to anything, debug and inspect - I
> don’t quite know how I’m going to live without it. The ability to jump
> quickly to declarations of variables, navigate around the project and
> quickly locate stuff - this saves me so much time - and I’m hoping the Mac
> offers something similar. Debugging and code navigation are the priorities,
> with MPI debugging a must-have.****
>
> ** **
>
> This is a little off topic, so I apologise in advance, but I’d like to
> know what other paraview developers are using on the mac.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks****
>
> ** **
>
> JB****
>
> ** **
>
> [ brief aside not directly relevant to main question …****
>
> Unfortunately, development of paraview under windows has become almost
> impossible due to the combination of cmake-2.8.x/VS2012 and whatever else
> which means that projects constantly rebuild and my development time has
> gone from seconds/minutes to hours for any turnaround. In addition, the
> mpich people have dropped support for windows (I need MPI-3) and some new
> projects I’m working on have toolchains which I can’t get going on my
> windows machine - at least not without considerable pain anyway]****
>
> ** **
>
> -- ****
>
> John Biddiscombe,                        email:biddisco @.at.@ cscs.ch****
>
> http://www.cscs.ch/****
>
> CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre  | Tel:  +41 (91) 610.82.07****
>
> Via Trevano 131, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland   | Fax:  +41 (91) 610.82.82****
>
> ** **
>
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