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Re: [Fenics] Release deadline

 

On 2/16/10 10:27 AM, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Harish Narayanan
> <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2/16/10 9:06 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:42:55AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:09:31AM +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:49:05PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   UFL    0.5.2
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   FErari 0.2.0
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   FFC    0.9.1
>>>>>>>> Now released.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   Instant 0.9.8: Why is the buildbot failing?
>>>>>>>> Now released.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   DOLFIN  0.9.7: SCOTCH problems
>>>>>>>> Remains to fix:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  - Drop Hardy support (upgrade buildbots)
>>>>>>> This might take some time, at least for linux64-exp since I have no
>>>>>>> control over this. I guess it will be upgraded when Lucid is out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What should we install on hardy-i386? Karmic or perhaps Lucid?
>>>>>> I think we should choose the simplest option. I don't know what is
>>>>>> easiest and fastest, either dropping Hardy support (which requires
>>>>>> upgrades of buildbots and some extra administration) or adding the
>>>>>> required #ifdefs for unordered_set/set. Garth?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I don't want to add ifdefs (it actually involves more than just that).
>>>>> Harish told me yesterday that he wasn't using the standard OSX gcc (his
>>>>> old version didn't support tr1 well), which means we could probably
>>>>> switch back to using the tr1 unordered containers and not break Hardy or
>>>>> standard standard OSX installations.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would still suggest that we drop Hardy in the near future, perhaps
>>>>> once Lucid is out.
>>>>
>>>> That seems like a good plan since Lucid is the next LTS release.
>>>>
>>>> Do you know which #ifdefs to add so we can get the buildbot green?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No ifdefs. Just change
>>>
>>>   boost::unordered_set -> std::tr1::unordered_set
>>>   boost::unordered_map -> std::tr1::unordered_map
>>>
>>> and the relevant includes.
>>
>> This should work, except it might break the mac buildbot. While I wasn't
>> using the most recent OS X or gcc, I think I was in line with the mac
>> buildbot.
>>
>> Johannes, what does the buildbot run? Leopard or Snow Leopard, and what
>> gcc does it use?
> 
> I think it was Leopard and gcc 4.3 from fink. However, the mac
> buildbot has been offline for some weeks now. We have bought a new
> imac to be used as a dedicated mac buildbot but I haven't started to
> install anything on it yet. I'm not sure if we should go for fink or
> macports. Any recommendations?

I suggest MacPorts. It is a bit more unstable than fink, but it allows
for greater control and has a very recent collection of packages.

Harish



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