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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

It has become obvious that the installation of various FEniCS packages
(most notably DOLFIN and dependencies) is an obstacle for many users.

Maybe it's time we provide a binary (+headers) distribution of the
collection of FEniCS packages that is *very* simple to set up?

This would include all the FEniCS packages (DOLFIN, FErari, FFC, FIAT,
Ko, Puffin) and any non-standard dependencies (PETSc, uBLAS, libxml2,
MPI, UMFPACK, SLEPc etc).

The process of building the package could be semi-automated and the
package would be named FEniCS (fenics) with a version number of its
own.

Any thoughts?

Anyone wants to help building the package?

/Anders