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[Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 06 February 2009 16:12:06 Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:50 PM, DOLFIN <dolfin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >  - The variable dolfin.__version__ now holds the version of DOLFIN. This
>> >    is used when calling the jit compiler, adding this to the signature of
>> > the form
>>
>> By the "jit compiler", do you mean compilation of dolfin functions? If
>> so, that sounds good.
>
> Actually not, but it makes sense to include it. Will do.

Nice. Compilation of dolfin functions do depend on the dolfin version,
so this is important.

>> Or do you mean when calling jit from FFC? If so, why?
>
> Well, I think that we concluded, in a thread far from now, that we should
> include the DOLFIN version in the signature of the form compilations, so I
> threw it in.

I don't recall any such conclusion, and don't understand why?

> First it probably won't heart beeing in, but may not make too much sense, as
> we compile pure UFC forms. We should maybee include the ufc version
> instead/too?

Good idea. I'd say instead, unless the compiled module includes dolfin
wrapper code in which case adding the dolfin version makes sense.

Martin