On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:33:24 -0600 (CST), Roy Stogner <[email protected]> wrote: > The one current limitation that VisIt seems to have compared to > Paraview is ubiquity. When I wanted to play with the latter, I found > it in the Fedora repos for home and it was in Ubuntu for them to > install at work. There's a lot of people interested in VisIt on > Ubuntu, but the thread I read suggested that the only volunteer > packager wouldn't be able to work on it for another month.
I think the real issue was that VisIt bundles even more heavily than Paraview, and bundling is counter to distro philosophy (for good reasons [1]). VisIt trunk recently switched to CMake, so it's now possible to build an almost fully unbundled version (they still depend on VTK-5.0.0) without much effort. For example, I have a build of trunk, with parallel support, that uses all system libs except for VTK. Jed [1] This is also the reason that Sage, OpenFOAM, and others are almost impossible to package. I hate bundling, and don't understand why so many projects insist on it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
