[Paraview] Distributing PVSC files (ParaView 4.0)

[Burlen Loring]

Hi Utkarsh,

this looks great.

One thing I have encountered and that you may want to think about is 
that a single static pvsc is not going to work for all users as pvsc's 
depend on external components such as xterm, ssh, and plink. These are 
in different places on different user's systems, maybe not present on 
the user's system leading to the pvsc not working.

I could see a couple of different avenues to solve this: Probably the 
best would be to integrate ssh tunneling into PV via libssh so that 
these dependencies are not needed. An aleternative would be to include a 
configure step in your new pvsc import process (like cmake) where 
dependencies are located and a system specific pvcs is generated. 
Something far easier and less intrusive might be to add a file dialog 
element to the pvsc syntax so that the user could easily  browse for 
these files. That's not as nice as the other approaches because it 
clutters the UI and the user still has to hunt down the files, but it at 
least gives them a method to do so.

Burlen

On 08/19/2011 02:15 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Folks,
>
> A feature we are thinking of implementing for ParaView 4.0 is to make
> it easier to distribute pvsc files to connect to various HPC
> resources. I've sketched out a rough proposal for the same at
> http://paraview.org/ParaView3/index.php/Distributing_Server_Configuration_Scripts
>
> Any comments/suggestions are always welcome.
>
> Utkarsh
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