[Paraview] Add support for PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS?

[Michael Jackson]

That is not is ParaView anymore? When did it go away? I use it all the  
time and recommend it to my first time users to compile their own  
filters. I would vote to keep the functionality if it is not causing  
problems for other parts of the build.

Why was it removed? Is it removed in CVS or 3.4?

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Mike Jackson                 www.bluequartz.net


On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:46 AM, John Biddiscombe wrote:

> There used to be a PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES - which allowed  
> you to compile modules into paraview - in fact it still exists, but  
> probably nobody uses it any more since plugins have improved so much.
>
> I have some users who want to compile paraview, and a couple of  
> selected plugins, and then do a single "make install"
>
> I've added PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS to the main paraview  
> cmake, which allows you to enter
>
> vtkCSCSCommon;vtkCSCSFluent;vtkCSCSNetCDF etc etc etc
>
> and then it prompts for paths to the sources, and compiles them at  
> the same time as paraview itself.
>
> Does anyone else need this functionality? Shall I add it to cvs?  
> It's very simple - but does make life easier for the less  
> experienced users (to manage one build instead of two).
>
> JB
>
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