[Paraview] paraviewweb portability question

[J. Calahan]

Hello,

I'm evaluating ParaViewWeb as part of the ParaView 4.0 release and the
4.x nightly Git builds.

The current contents of http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaViewWeb are a
bit stale as it still mentions pipeline_manager.py (removed in commit
bbb9a40). It took me a while to figure out how to execute the web
visualizer with 4.1-RC1 and the nightlies. For the record this works
for 4.0.1:

 ~$ pvpython paraview/pipeline_manager.py --content www --data-dir
$PARAVIEW_DATA

And this is the syntax past that version:

 ~$ pvpython paraview/web/pv_web_visualizer.py --content www
--data-dir $PARAVIEW_DATA
 ~$ pvpython paraview/web/pv_web_file_loader.py --content www
--data-dir $PARAVIEW_DATA
 ...

I've noticed a few platform differences when trying to display the
can.ex2 data set and from adding, say, sphere geometry.

CentOS6.4
- 4.0.1 displays data set fine
- 4.1-RC1 webapp came up, but did not display data set
- 4.x-64bit-glibc-2.3.6-NIGHTLY-20131113 webapp came up, but did not
display data set
- 4.x-64bit-glibc-2.3.6-NIGHTLY-20131115 webapp came up, but did not
display data set

OSX10.7
- 4.0.1 webapp came up, but did not display data set
- 4.1-RC1 displays data set fine
- 4.x-NIGHTLY-20131113 displays data set fine

Win7
- 4.0.1 webapp UI wedges after "WebVisualizer" link is clicked
- 4.1-RC1 share/paraview-4.1/www is not present
- 4.x-NIGHTLY-20131113 share/paraview-4.*/www is not present

I'm not that interested in Windows (just tried it out of curiosity);
my interest is primarily Linux, then OSX, with the nightly builds.

In the cases where no geometry is displayed I can still interactive
with the view... rotating w/ mouse and observing axis movement. Also I
don't see any stdout/err difference between the versions that work and
the versions that do not. Any pointers on getting it to work?

Thanks,
Josh