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> 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.

Yes, will do.

Johannes

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