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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> 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.

Works fine for me, so I'm happy to merge now asap.

Garth