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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:16:05AM -0600, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Works fine here also. Maybe we don't need to wait a week, we could
merge now.

-- 
Anders