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[Ola Skavhaug <skavhaug@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Sandve Alnæs skrev den 30/03-2008 følgende:
> 2008/3/30, Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sunday 30 March 2008 20:45:02 Åsmund Ødegård wrote:
> >  > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > [snip]
> >  >
> >  > >  > > This should be quite straight forward to do with dolfin-scons, as we
> >  > >  > > already do this for pycc. One dolfin_module-name.pc file will also
> >  > >  > > be created for each module, making linking and compiling against a
> >  > >  > > specific module easy.
> >  > >
> >  > >  How straight forward is this Åsmund, Johannes, Ola? :)
> >  >
> >  > Just from top of my head:
> >  >
> >  > Very easy, indeed. In principle, just remove the scons.cfg dolfin have
> >  > today, and start making scons.cfg files inside submodules; as it is
> >  > done in PyCC. I belive the building of dolfin_moudle-name.pc is no
> >  > fully automatic yet, so some hooks must be put in SConscript, besides
> >  > that most thing should just work.
> >
> >
> > How is the logic of swig directories and python modules in simula-scons?
> >
> >  In pycc we have a swig subdirectory in each module directory, which results in
> >  one python module for each c++ module. In dolfin we have a swig directory
> >  directly in the package directory. I suppose we want to continue with this
> >  after a possible move to modularized c++ libraries.
> >
> >
> >  Johan
> 
> Having a single swig generated module separately from the C++ modules
> like it is with PyDOLFIN has many benefits, this is also the solution
> Trilinos ended up with after having problems with the "one swig module
> per C++ module" model. So lets not follow the PyCC structure on that
> part.

I agree. It is a big hassle to make SWIG get the type info correct.
DOLFIN's solution is much cleaner.

Ola
 
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