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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 24 May 2012 11:43, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM,  <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> +  find_package(Trilinos 10.10.0 PATHS ${TRILINOS_DIR} ${Trilinos_DIR} $ENV{TRILINOS_DIR} QUIET)
>>
>> This does not work, i.e., I can still use 10.8.5.
>>
>> Also, I'm not very happy about requiring 10.10.0 as it will mean a lot
>> of work for me. I say we keep 10.8.1 as the requirement unless there
>> is a good reason to require 10.10.0.
>>
>
> The good reason is that it's good practice to depend on the most
> recent stable version.

I agree that it is good practice to support the most recent stable
version but keeping support for older versions is also good.

> Supporting 10.8 as well is fine if someone else is willing to test the
> build system, and if necessary work on it. It looks to me that it will
> work fine 10.8, but I haven't tested.

I'm willing to do that.

Johannes