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[Dag Lindbo <dag@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:47, Anders Logg wrote:
> It has become obvious that the installation of various FEniCS packages
> (most notably DOLFIN and dependencies) is an obstacle for many users.
> 
> Maybe it's time we provide a binary (+headers) distribution of the
> collection of FEniCS packages that is *very* simple to set up?
> 
> This would include all the FEniCS packages (DOLFIN, FErari, FFC, FIAT,
> Ko, Puffin) and any non-standard dependencies (PETSc, uBLAS, libxml2,
> MPI, UMFPACK, SLEPc etc).
> 

I think it would make sense to provide binaries for a non-MPI/PETSc
installation. A fair guess is that someone would like to start using the
libs and get comfy, before going MPI.

By the way, uBLAS/UMFPACK rally speed things up! A wonderful improvement
over 0.6.1.

//Dag

> The process of building the package could be semi-automated and the
> package would be named FEniCS (fenics) with a version number of its
> own.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Anyone wants to help building the package?
> 
> /Anders
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