fixing yet another issue with relative paths to ext. arrays in nameschemes

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Fix "import visit" on UNIX-based platforms.


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Regenerate the paraDIS CMakeLists.txt file.


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Add support for species names in silo objects, avoid crashes with new local dbi flag, readme changes.
spec, scal, and readme changes

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added visit_utils.qannote

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Don't unregister broadcast callbacks on VisItDisconnect.



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Added host profile for Edison at NERSC.

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testing ability to flag abort calls via hooks

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removing abort call

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I put several abort() and exit() calls within a #ifdef DEBUG block 
to get the code to commit.



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I corrected some errors I introduced when I modified the paraDIS
reader to satisfy the commit hooks regarding the use of abort and
exit.



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updating to use silo 4.9.1

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due to silo tarball update, needed to adjust check sum values

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I modified the build system to only build the paraDIS reader if boost
1.36.0 or later was installed on the system.



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Use silo 4.9.1 on windows.

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I updated the INSTALL_NOTES and release notes for the 2.6.2 release.



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Set PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH in the frontendlauncher shell script so Python really looks where it is supposed to look for modules.


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Fix session file state error.


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I updated several config site files to use silo 4.9.1.



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Making frontendlauncher more sh-compliant.


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