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[Johan Hake <hake.dev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/15/2012 10:07 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Johan Hake <hake.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 11/14/2012 09:51 AM, Benjamin Kehlet wrote:
>>> 2012/11/14 Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:logg@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>>
>>>     Dear all,
>>>
>>>     The plot and csg branches have been merged into trunk. Please try out
>>>     the new functionality for mesh generation (from both CSG descriptions
>>>     and input files) and plotting and report any problems.
>>>
>>>     All thanks to very good work from Benjamin, Joachim and Johannes.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is a little bit early to applaud. There are some issues with the csg
>>> stuff that need to be fixed, so mesh generation (in particular in 3D) is
>>> likely to crash.  I've have pushed everything to trunk, though, since
>>> some of the plotting code depends on parts of the csg code.
>>
>> It crashes, but almost randomly. The same script (3D demo) sometime
>> generate a nice mesh, other times a crappy one, and sometimes just crash.
>>
>>> Will report back when this has been fixed.
>>
>> What is the main cause for this erratic behavior?
>>
> 
> I observed erratic behaviour with CGAL <= 4.0.2 + gcc before the CSG
> merge (this also showed up with the buildbots, with the CGAL-based
> mesh generation failing randomly), but it's been very reliable with
> CGAL 4.2 + gcc 4.7.

Ok, I guess upgrade is the only viable way then ;)

Johan

> Garth
> 
>> Johan
>>
>>> Benjamin
>>>
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