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Anders Logg wrote:
I've read this entire thread over the past few days and I am going to attempt a solution based on the GAR ports system[1]. It will not be distributed as a binary, but a rule-set to download sources and compile them for different architectures. I have been curious to try it, and this seems to be as good an opportunity as any other.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). 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
This is similar to the scripts you mention later on in the thread, except based on an existing framework. If not anything, though I don't have access to Windows to try them out, I can help out by putting your scripts through (the peculiar) Mac OS X and submitting diffs.
Harish[1] http://lnx-bbc.org/garchitecture.html -- Used, for instance, to build new releases of GNOME.
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