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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds very nice. I know from speaking to quite a number of people that 
new users often struggle when trying to build DOLFIN, and they are often 
unsure of which dependencies are required and which are optional.

A challenging target would be to support Windows.

Will the buildbots run the scripts?

Garth

Harish Narayanan wrote:
> I'd like to announce a release of Dorsal, a bash script for building
> many FEniCS projects (featuring DOLFIN) and their dependencies for
> various platforms. A primary goal of the project is to lower the barrier
> of entry for people curious to try out DOLFIN.
>
> At the moment, it works reasonably cleanly for the following environments:
>
> * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
> * Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
> * Mac OS X 10.5 (with fink)
>
> I envision more platforms being supported in the future as each of these
> are relatively straightforward to set up; one just needs access to them
> to iron out any system-specific kinks. Let me know if you're interested
> in tweaking it for other platforms.
>
> Some URIs:
>
> A (sparse) Wiki page: http://fenics.org/wiki/Dorsal
> Its hg repository: http://www.fenics.org/dev/dorsal/
> Occasional snapshots: http://home.simula.no/~harish/files/projects/dorsal/
>
> Harish
>
>
>
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