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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:18:01AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 
> 
> Ola Skavhaug wrote:
> > Johannes Ring skrev den 19/02-2008 følgende:
> >> On Mon, Feb 18, Anders Logg wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:33:40PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >>>> This is good juncture at which re-focus on important goals for a
> >>>> hopefully not too distant next release. Three priorities that I see are:
> >>>>
> >>>> - New build system.
> >>> I think Johannes (http://simula.no/portal_memberdata/johannr) has
> >>> started looking at this.
> >> Unfortunately, I haven't had very much time to look at this lately.
> >> Hopefully I will get some time later this week so I can start working on
> >> this (if that is what Ola wants me to do).
> > 
> > Sure, this is relatively high on the priority list. As a nice side effect, you
> > will become an expert SCons user, useful in lots of other projects :)
> > 
> 
> Give that a release has just been made, this could be a good moment to 
> bite the bullet and implement the new build system in dolfin-dev, and 
> accept that things will be broken for a little while. It would be good 
> to have the build system largely sorted out before getting stuck into 
> parallelisation.
> 
> Garth

Yes, it's the only way to get it tested. As long as the scons-based
DOLFIN is in a separate repository, it will be ignored by everyone.

So let's break things as quickly as possible so we can fix them.

Johannes, tell us as soon as you have something that "works" (for
you). Then everyone can take a quick look and if there are no
objections we push it to the main repository and work from there.

-- 
Anders