[Paraview] Proper Way to Include Plugins in ParaView 3.8 and beyond

[Michael Jackson]

Lets try this again, from an even higher perspective:

I have several git repositories. Each one holds a plugin project for  
paraview. They are:

PVMXA
PVDislocation
PVOIM

The three projects are independent. Usually I would set  
PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULE to "PVMXA;PVOIM;PVDislocation" and run  
CMake. CMake would ask me for all the source directories for each  
"module" and things went as planned. With the  
PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS_FILE which one of the repos would I store  
that in? (Rhetorical question..). I guess I can keep the same file in  
_each_ of the repos with instructions telling the user how to comment  
out what they don't need? Seems a bit odd to have to do it that way.  
Now, if PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS_FILE would actually be  
PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS_FILES (Note the plural) and I could assign  
multiple files to it then this would be much better. Again, Having  
been out of the ParaView plugin game for 9 months I may have missed  
something along then way.

Hopefully that is more clear in where I am getting confused.
--
Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Dave Partyka wrote:

> In the file PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS_FILE points to you can just  
> enumerate all your plugins like so
>
> paraview_build_optional_plugin(Plugin1 "My Plugin 1" "/some/source/ 
> dir" ON)
> paraview_build_optional_plugin(Plugin2 "My Plugin 2" "/some/other/ 
> source/dir" ON)
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net 
> > wrote:
> I usually use PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULE to add my plugins. Is  
> this the "proper" way now? In looking through the ParaView cmake  
> files I found the PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS_FILE variable which  
> seems to only take a single value (a file path). What happens if I  
> have multiple plugins in multiple project directories to add? Or is  
> there another way that I should be upgrading all my plugins to use?  
> Wiki entry that I missed?
>
> Thank
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
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