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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:04:52PM +0000, Myles English wrote:
> 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.

I expect there is little interest from anyone else to maintain it.

If you create a page on the wiki that links to your packages and
describes how to use them, we could add a link to that page from the
main download page http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Download (which is write
protected).

--
Anders

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