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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:46:04PM +0100, Johan Jansson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:10:22PM -0600, Anders Logg wrote:
> > What more do we want to accomplish before 0.6.0?
> > 
> > Johan Hoffman and I are giving a series of lectures at the Geilo
> > winter school (http://www.math.sintef.no/vskoler/2006/) in the
> > beginning of March, and it would be good to be able to have a fresh
> > version ready before then.
> > 
> > We've completed most of the things on the roadmap for 0.5.x (see
> > http://www.fenics.org/dolfin/roadmap.html) so it might be time to open
> > 0.6.0 and get ready to rework the mesh (Sieve).
> > 
> > Of course, 0.6.0 does not have to be perfect, there's always 0.6.1,
> > but perhaps we could try to make an effort and fix any remaining small
> > issues and also improve the manual over the next two weeks so we can
> > make a good release.
> > 
> > How about a deadline for February 28?
> > 
> > /Anders
> > 
> 
> I think two remaining features to implement are:
> 
> 1. Loading Functions (DiscreteFunction) from file.
> 
> 2. An interface for projecting/interpolating between Functions. The
> main example which requires some manual work in solvers is defining
> the initial values by a UserFunction and wanting to represent that as
> a DiscreteFunction.
> 
> We've discussed both of these before, and I think we're pretty clear
> on what needs to be done. I think we should at least try to get these
> in before 0.6.0 since they are quite fundamental features.
> 
>   Johan

Another thing that we should add to the list is the build system. We
need to gain some confidence that it's working properly before we
release.

Johan H, does the current version work on RedHat?

/Anders