[Paraview-developers] Goodbye windows, Hello Mac

[Aashish Chaudhary]

ninja
qtcreator (sometime sublime for quick work)
gdb




On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:11 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> 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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| Aashish Chaudhary
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