how to bundle example visualization files

[qbisi (qbisicwate)]

Hi, i am packaging paraview on nixpkgs, I want to bundle example visualization examples to Paraview.
There has been a duplicated discussion here :

Where to put example visualization files?

Hello, I want to bundle example visualization examples to Paraview. I download ParaViewTestingDataFiles-v5.9.0.tar.gz. I unpack everything to share/paraview-5.9/examples. However, it error looking for disk_out_ref.ex2 in /examples. So I copy everything in /share/paraview-5.9/examples/Testing/Data/* and put it to /share/paraview-5.9/examples Paraview now able to see and open the example visualizations. My question is, is it the correct way to do this? What about ParaViewTestingDataStore-v5…

However the discussion is for paraview-5.9 and the bundled examples have been changed in paraview-6.0.0.
Is there any stable scripts or examples file that i can make use of across different version?

[cory.quammen (Cory Quammen (Kitware))]

There is kind of a script, but it’s a CMake install command that just copies the files into the examples directory: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/blob/master/projects/paraviewtutorialdata.cmake?ref_type=heads

The data is downloaded from https://www.paraview.org/files/data/ParaViewTutorialData-20220629.tar.gz (see https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/blob/master/versions.cmake?ref_type=heads#L21).

While that may not help you in terms of providing a script to do this, hopefully it clarifies how the example data is obtained.

[qbisi (qbisicwate)]

Thanks, that works for me.