dorsal team mailing list archive

[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/16/11 1:05 PM, Roman Putanowicz wrote:
>> On 5/16/11 9:50 AM, Anders Logg wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:44:35AM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>>>> On 5/9/11 4:24 PM, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> revno: 553
>>>>> committer: Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> branch nick: dorsal
>>>>> timestamp: Mon 2011-05-09 11:10:13 +0200
>>>>> message:
>>>>>   Set build directory in dorsal.sh. Don't know if this is used but it
>>>>>   otherwise creates an empty directory under ~/Work even if other
>>>>>   directories for source and install are specified in local.cfg.
>>>>> modified:
>>>>>   dorsal.sh
>>>>
>>>> This directory is not really used.
>>>
>>> ok. Perhaps it should be removed then?
>>
>> I will, as part of a bigger cleanup removing a few things that were
>> added when dorsal was extended to build femdk.
> While being dormant for almost a year I would like to say that
> I still use dorsal for setting up the environment for FEMDK
> (at the moment there is me and two other guys so we do not 
> often move the environment). 
> 
> Dorsal is a very nice tool so while you may remove any stuff
> that directly relates to FEMDK, if I may suggest I would keep
> the part that makes it possible to use dorsal for other projects
> without hacking it to much. But of course the decision is yours.
> By the way, do you know if dorsal is used in ony other projects 
> than Fenics and FEMDK ?

Not that I know of. Also, I did not know it was still updated for FEMDK
since there has been no activity on that front for quite some time.

The only things I have removed so far are:
1. FEMDK platform and package files (these can easily be added and
maintained by you later).
2. The out-of-source build stuff (I removed this like 3 minutes ago).

If 2 is absolutely essential, it can be readded.

Harish