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Re: leopard

 

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 17:07 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 8/3/10 4:26 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > The script for leopard seems to be a bit out of date. It recommends
> > fink, and apparently some packages are not available. Would it be good
> > to update the instructions to macports? I don't have access to a Mac, so
> > it would be great if someone could test a clean Dorsal installation on
> > leopard 
> 
> A good starting point for this is to just copy snowleopard.platform over
> to leopard.platform which I will do presently. I have difficulty
> maintaining platforms I don't have access to or which I have upgraded
> from. (Leopard to Snow Leopard in this case.)
> 
> > Even better: could fenics be added to macports? 
> 
> I started this process once, but got discouraged by the work involved. I
> think I will try it again, starting this time with only the bare minimal
> prerequisites for fenics.
> 

A first step could be to reduce the number of packages that Dorsal
downloads - from a quick look at macports, it provides almost all the
libraries that the FEniCS components need.

Garth

> Harish





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