[Paraview] Is there any point to compiling with MPI but without offscreen rendering?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:
> Is it useful to have a pvserver binary that supports both GLX and OSMesa?
> Usually an environment that requires pvserver osmesa doesn't have X11
> installed, so you wouldn't want a binary with dependencies on X11.

It is quite useful, especially since people want to run command line
tools without render window popping up (OSMesa), but want to use the
Paraview Qt application. Right now, they need to have separate builds
for that, which is kinda inconvenient.

Utkarsh