[Paraview] Fedora mpi packaging

[Orion Poplawski]

Yeah, I ship two sets of libraries (one mpi, one not).  But it seems 
like it might be useful to have:

paraview - contains paraview/pvpython, installed on front ends
paraview-server - non-mpi server
paraview-server-mpi - mpi server

Berk Geveci wrote:
> On second thought, it may not be as easy as I described before. All
> paraview binaries link against vtkParallel which links against MPI. If
> you want to distribute a non-mpi client and an mpi server, you would
> have to distribute multiple sets of shared libraries (which may be
> acceptable).
> 
> -berk
> 
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Although it would make sense to separate the two, it would probably
>> require duplication of some files. The client would have paraview and
>> pvpython, the server pvbatch, pvserver, pvdataserver, pvrenderserver.
>> However, pvpython and pvbatch both depend on some .py files. To do it
>> really right, you would have to do something like:
>>
>> * ParaView python core - all .py files (this package is useless by itself)
>> * ParaView client (paraview and pvpython) depends on python, Qt and
>> ParaView python core
>> * ParaView server (pvbatch, pvserver, pvdataserver, pvrenderserver)
>> depends on python, mpi and ParaView python core
>>
>> I may be missing some dependencies here...
>>
>> -berk
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>>> Kent Eschenberg wrote:
>>>> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>>> My current question is what binaries need mpi versions? ...
>>>>> But I'm guessing you could use a non-mpi "paraview" binary to connect to
>>>>>  a parallel running pvserver just fine ...
>>>> Yes. I don't think the mpi version of "paraview" actually uses mpi. You
>>>> definitely need the mpi version of pvbatch and pvserver; I don't know about
>>>> the others.
>>>>
>>>> Kent
>>>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>>> Follow up -
>>>
>>>  Would it make sense to have "client" and "server" packages?  If so, what
>>> would go where?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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Orion Poplawski
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