[Paraview] Add support for PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS?

[Michael Jackson]

Oh.. Knee Jerk Reaction.. I guess I still need that cup of coffee yet  
this morning ;-)

Yes. I use it. Yes I would like it to stay if it does not cause any  
problems.


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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio



On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:27 AM, John Biddiscombe wrote:

> 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
> http://www.cscs.ch/
> CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre  | Tel:  +41 (91) 610.82.07
> Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland      | Fax:  +41 (91) 610.82.82
>
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