[Paraview] Add support for PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS?

[Moreland, Kenneth]

John,

You should talk to Tim Shead.  As part of his OverView work, he is implementing a mechanism is ParaView in which you can define a set of plugins which you want loaded upon program startup.  The vision is that one day the ParaView application will really be an empty shell the defines its GUI and implementation by opening a set of predefined plugins.

My point is that PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS may be unnecessary and at some point may be obsolete.

-Ken


On 1/14/09 6:46 AM, "John Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch> 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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