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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:12:17PM +0100, johannr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, February 19, 2008 Anders Logg wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The SCons build system for DOLFIN should be in a more or less "working"
> state right now. I have updated the instructions at
> http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Compiling_DOLFIN_with_SCons
> 
> Please, have a go!

Very nice! (I haven't checked it yet but I assume it is...)

I suggest we set a deadline for next Friday (March 14) for comments on
the new build system. So let's everyone try it out and see if it
works. If there are no major objections, we'll push this to dolfin-dev
next Friday.

-- 
Anders