dolfin team mailing list archive

[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:16:21PM +0100, Johan Jansson wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
> >
> > Release early and often is a good thing. There just hasn't been much
> > pressure to get a release out for a while (probably since most
> > users/developers use the hg version anyway).
> >
> >   
> Do open projects which use DOLFIN make releases which rely on the hg 
> version? Could someone from such a project comment on what they do? What 
> does Simula do when they make a release of open software which relies on 
> DOLFIN?

Simula has never made an open release of software depending on DOLFIN.

Ola can probably say something more about this.

> > Depending on what state the code is in when someone asks for a
> > release, it may take from just a day to a couple of weeks to get a
> > release ready. So if you just ask for a release earlier (like a couple
> > of weeks before you need it), then it shouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > The dolfin-incremental thing looks like it complicates things. An
> > alternative would be to make automatic daily snapshots so you can
> > depend on dolfin-2008-01-16 for example.
> >   
> I don't think it's practical to depend on automatic snapshots, you would 
> have to time your commands to some daily or hourly script, it seems a 
> bit cumbersome. But sure, why not build on the snapshot system. When you 
> want a persistent snapshot release, you run the snapshot script with a 
> date tag. Or?

You mean not making automatic snapshots but having a script that takes
a snapshot with version number = YYYY-MM-DD?

That could work. We just need to add a directory

  http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/dolfin/snapshots

and a simple script named makesnapshot (or similar) under scripts/ in
DOLFIN that runs the script and uploads. We can run this script
anytime at the request of anyone.

> > On a related note, can we remove dolfin-stable and
> > dolfin-testing? They haven't been updated for 6 months
> I think we should have a working system in place before we remove old 
> systems. But they can be removed if we have a usable alternative.

But is anyone using them? They don't seem to be maintained.

-- 
Anders