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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:05:42PM +0200, kent-and@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> >> On Thursday May 27 2010 23:28:19 Kent Andre wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:52 -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> >> > > You can controll this by setting the environment variable:
> >> > >   INSTANT_CACHE_DIR
> >> > >
> >> > > to different directories for the different DOLFIN builds.
> >> > >
> >> > > If you use different conf files for the different DOLFIN builds you
> >> can
> >> > > easily controll the instant cache dir from within these.
> >> > >
> >> > > We once included the dolfin version in the cache id, but it was
> >> removed
> >> > > as it the ufc python module is not dependent on anything in dolfin.
> >> Not
> >> > > sure how true this is in reality though.
> >> > >
> >> > > What kind of troubles have you encountered?
> >> > >
> >> > > Johan
> >> >
> >> > The shared library in the cache is linked against another Dolfin and
> >> > therefore it wouldn't load.
> >>
> >> Ok I see. We are including the __version__ in the signature of the
> >> instant
> >> module, but if you are using the latest stable version together with a
> >> development version, you get the same version number, which wont trigger
> >> a new
> >> module.
> >>
> >> One way to fix this is to increase the version on all development
> >> versions.
> >> This would make sense as we are no longer developing the 0.9.7, which is
> >> released. We are developing 0.9.8, which is then reflected by the
> >> __version__
> >> string. Other softwares use this convention too.
> >>
> >> If we want to be water proof we could look up libdolfin.so and take a
> >> md5 sum
> >> of the file and use that in the signature. We then need to use different
> >> suffixes and prefixes for the different platforms.
> >
> > We should set the number to "x.y.z+" right after the release.
> >
> > This is done in FFC (as part of the post-release hook) and it needs to
> > be done also in DOLFIN. I'll add this to the DOLFIN post-release hook.
> >
> >
>
> I think we should go for the water proof solution and use info either from
> the library or compiler options + version numbers. The compiler options
> solution might be the simplest portable solution (?).
> It should be simple enough to do.
>
> Kent

The version number in DOLFIN is now set to 0.9.7+ and the release
script has been updated to take care of this for subsequent releases.

--
Anders

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