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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:15:49AM +0200, Dag Lindbo wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:47, Anders Logg wrote:
> > 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).
> > 
> 
> I think it would make sense to provide binaries for a non-MPI/PETSc
> installation. A fair guess is that someone would like to start using the
> libs and get comfy, before going MPI.
> 
> By the way, uBLAS/UMFPACK rally speed things up! A wonderful improvement
> over 0.6.1.

Yes, most likely, the default distribution will be without any special
configuration options (which would mean no --enable-petsc) so we would
distribute the simple uBLAS non-PETSc version.

/Anders