[Users] Visit & CarpetHDF5 mismatch?

[Christian Reisswig]

> 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:
> >> 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 The instructions in the latter's README.txt seem a bit out of date,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.

I have send Hank Childs a tarball of the most recent version of the plugin a 
while ago and he promised to put it to the VisIt SVN repository. However, it 
is still not part of the latest release. I probably should contact him again.

Christian