[Paraview] ANN: Upcoming changes to ParaView Server Manager

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi Folks,

We finally merge to master. So next time you build from a fresh
update, don't forget to do a clean build.

Thanks,

Seb

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sebastien Jourdain
<sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> The time has gone and we plan to merge the Collaboration branch to
> master this Friday (April 8th 2011).
> So if anyone has something to say, please do it before Friday or it
> will be too late. ;-)
>
> Seb
>
> PS: We will also update the Version number to be 3.11.1.
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Sebastien Jourdain
> <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> For those of you who haven't follow the topic in the
>> paraview-developers mailing list here is a quick summary on what's
>> going on in the coming weeks.
>> We've been working for a while now on restructuring the Server Manager
>> of ParaView to make it more efficient as well as allowing it to
>> support collaborative workflows.
>> The API has undergone major changes and may cause some minor rewrite
>> of your own code. Before we merge these changes to master, please try
>> out the Collaboration branch with your code and let us know if you
>> experience any issue.
>> Please see below for the details on how to checkout the Collaboration branch.
>>
>> Thanks for your support,
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> ============= From the ParaView-developer list ===============
>>
>> Following up the mail from Utkarsh on the changes to ParaView Server Manager :
>>
>> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview-developers/2011-February/000951.html
>>
>> We finally push our branch to the stage. That branch will only be
>> merged to master in the coming month.
>> But if you have developed a plugin or any code based on ParaView and
>> you want to test it against
>> that major update, please follow the coming instructions and don't
>> hesitate to send us your feed back.
>>
>> In order to fetch our ParaView branch from stage, you will need to
>> execute the following command line:
>>
>> $ git clone --recursive git://paraview.org/stage/ParaView.git -b Collaboration
>>
>> Then, as any regular ParaView source directory, you should be able to
>> configure and build it.
>> As some directory and kit renaming occurred, you may need to update
>> the name of the ParaView library that you are linking against. Now the
>> ParaViewCore package which used to be called "Servers" contains the
>> following kits:
>> vtkPVCommon, vtkPVClientServerCore, vtkPVServerImplementation,
>> vtkPVServerManager, vtkPVVTKExtensions.
>>
>> Please remember, these do not affect 3.10 or even 3.10.1. These will
>> make into the
>> official ParaView 4.0 release, nothing sooner.
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> PS: Additional informations on those changes are available here
>> http://paraview.org/ParaView3/images/2/24/ParaViewCollaborationChanges.pdf
>>
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