[Paraview] Add support for PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS?

[John Biddiscombe]

Michael

Read again carefully and this time look for the "in fact it still 
exists, but probably nobody uses it any more since plugins have improved 
so much" - I actually use it myself, so I'm playing deveils advocate, 
but I like plugins better now...

JB

> 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?
>
> ---
> 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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>> John Biddiscombe,                            email:biddisco @ cscs.ch
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John Biddiscombe,                            email:biddisco @ cscs.ch
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CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre  | Tel:  +41 (91) 610.82.07
Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland      | Fax:  +41 (91) 610.82.82