[Paraview] Reguarding python question

Robert Ferrell ferrell at lanl.gov
Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:28:50 -0700 (MST)


<quote who="Berk Geveci">
> OK. You guys managed to make me put aside all the "important" work I am
> doing and think about this :-) Here is my 2c

I goofed here.  I meant:

>>     RF> I would very much like to see Python (and Qt) (PyQT?), become
>>     RF> the foundation for ParaView.

"the foundation for ParaView scripting."
                             ^^^^^^^^^

>> I'm not adept at Tcl/Tk, and
>>     RF> since it's dying, and I don't have much desire to become adept
>>     RF> at it.  That limits what I can do to customize ParaView for
>>     RF> myself.
>
> ParaView's foundation is C++. It will always be so. C++ might be dying
> but I think it will outlive ParaView (and if it doesn't, we'll adapt).
> Tcl is the current scripting solution. However, as I said before, this
> is not hard to change.

I did not mean to imply that I thought C++ should be replaced.  I'm
interested in the scripting layer.

-robert