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[Myles English <mylesenglish@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 May 2010 20:24:19 +0200
Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/18/10 7:48 PM, Johan Hake wrote:
> > On Tuesday May 18 2010 10:59:09 Myles English wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> There are some fenics packages (stable versions) for Arch Linux
> >> ( http://www.archlinux.org ) in the Arch User Repository:
> > 
> > Cool! I am not an Archlinux user my self, but I have heard a lot of
> > nice things about it.

I moved from Ubuntu about a month ago because I felt it was becoming
too big to understand, it is fairly smooth so far.

> > 
> >> dolfin http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37270
> >> ffc    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37268
> >> fiat   http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37267
> >> ufl    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37266
> >>
> >> I didn't submit ufc because it is not explicitly licensed under
> >> GPL.
> > 
> > Isn't "released into the public domain" good enough? It was good
> > enough for Debian.

I was only hesitating because the README says "the header file
ufc.h and UFC Python utils are released into the public domain", which
made me think that perhaps there were some parts not released into the
public domain.  Just wasn't sure what to put for 'licence', so I put a
'?'.  I'm not actually distributing the code anyway because it
downloads from launchpad, so here it is:

ufc http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37269

> > 
> >> If anyone more central to dolfin development wants to take over the
> >> maintenance I'll happily orphan them.
> > 
> > Not sure there is such a person...
> 
> Wasn't André thinking of moving to Arch Linux? Perhaps he'll be
> interested in maintaining packages. :)

It not such a big job with Arch Linux, it's basically just a wrapper
script.  I do intend to maintain it unless someone more suitable comes
forward.

> 
> Harish
>


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Myles