[Users] Visit & CarpetHDF5 mismatch?

[Erik Schnetter]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> On 11 Apr 2012, at 19:10, Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY] wrote:
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>> Hi Ian.
>>
>>
>> I'll look for a logfile, but there was nothing generated in my ~/.visit
>> that I could see.
>>
>> Which reminds me: can frequent Visit/CarpetHDF5 users confirm for me where
>> they get (a) Visit, and (b) CarpetHDF5? For me the answers are:
>>
>> (a) the "Mac OS X - Intel 64 bit" binary from here:
>> https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/executables.html
>>
>> (b) the cactuscode VizTools trunk via svn:  svn co
>> https://svn.cactuscode.org/VizTools/CarpetHDF5/trunk/ CarpetHDF5
>>
>> The instructions in the latter's README.txt seem a bit out of date, which
>> made me suspicious. The lines about "updating the paths to the HDF5
>> library", for instance:
>
> Is the Carpet VisIt plugin part of the ET?  If it is, then we should make sure the documentation (i.e. the README) is up-to-date for each ET release.  If not, we should probably do it anyway :)

I believe it is not. The plan is instead to have it be included with
VisIt, and be available by default. For some reason, this seems to
take a few more years that we initially expected.

-erik

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