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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:28:54PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:15 -0600, Anders Logg wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Also, I saw that a new version of PETSc has been released (2.3.1). At
> first glance, I didn't see anything in the Changelog that should affect
> us, but it would be good to test against it before releasing 0.6.
> 
> Garth

Yes, we should update (if necessary) for PETSc 2.3.1. I haven't tried,
but will try soon.

/Anders