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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 February 2009 12:47:18 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Johan Hake wrote:
> > On Friday 13 February 2009 12:27:57 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >> It would be nice to make a new DOLFIN release in the next few days. Are
> >> there any pressing issues that need to be addressed before releasing
> >> 0.9.1?
> >>
> >> Also, are new releases of other packages (FFC/Instant/Viper) required
> >> for compatibility?
> >
> > For PyDOLFIN, yes.
> >
> > Then we need new releases of at least Instant, FFC and UFC.
>
> OK.
>
> > Not sure what to do with UFC, though, as the versions of UFC, for now has
> > been correlated with the state of the ufc.h file. This has (has it?) not
> > been changed since 1.1. However UFC now comes with a python extension
> > module, ufc.py which both FFC and PyDOLFIN needs.
>
> Perhaps we need a distinction between the file ufc.h and the the package
> UFC. What if version numbers 1.x.y are used, where x indicates the ufc.h
> version and changes in y are then related to the UFC 'package'
> (supporting tools).

Sounds reasonable. 

If we also include the UFC version in the signature string of the JIT compiled 
forms this will make even more sense, as discussed previously.

Johan