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ParaView version #162
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A reviewer of the JOSS paper asked "if there were significant updates to ParaView, would that hinder the functining of your package?"
Did I understand correctly that this might happen?
Relatedly, I see that our quickview-env.yml lists paraview>=6. Would it make sense to specify a particular version and manually update that in the future?
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jourdain commentedon Nov 6, 2026
We could but normally the API we rely on from ParaView is pretty stable. So the likelihood of something broken is low, but it does exist.
If we limit the version of ParaView, we may prevent another package from the same conda environment to leverage the latest ParaView capabilities.
huiwanpnnl commentedon Nov 6, 2026
I see. Then we should probably leave the
paraview>=6as is. And we can work together to prepare a response to the reviewer.huiwanpnnl commentedon Nov 8, 2026
PR #165 includes a new doc page on system requirements, which clarifies that for users, there is no need to separately install ParaView.