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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:15:20PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> It seems to me there are essentially three groups that this suggestion
>> will affect in different ways:
>>
>> 1. Core developers who have to suffer the hassle of making multiple
>> releases and working every day in multiple repositories.
>>
>> 2. Advanced users who want to pick and choose specific components.
>>
>> 3. Users who don't really care how the code is organized as long as it
>> can be installed easily.
>>
>> I think the suggestion will be a big relief for the group (1) of core
>> developers (5-10 people) and it will have a positive effect on the big
>> group of users (> 1000 people?) who don't need to worry about matching
>> version numbers. But it might be a small setback for the relatively
>> small group (2) of advanced users.
>>
> I'm still not fully convinced either way. I find the concept of nested
> repositories appealing. How convenient it is in practice I don't know.
> Would someone who has spoken in favour of nested repositories be
> wiling to make an example somewhere that we could test? I'm open to
> changing version control system if something else suits our needs.

Same here, but we're fairly committed to Launchpad and Launchpad does
not do git.

And will a nested repository solve the problem of making multiple
releases?

--
Anders


>> I might be wrong but I estimate the size of group (2) as somewhere
>> around 5-10 people and I think we've heard from all of them in this
>> discussion. :-) So my suggestion would be to go ahead with the
>> proposal and while doing so make sure to structure the new repo and
>> build system in such a way that it's easy to install single
>> components.
>>
>> The extra hassle for users that only want UFL would then be to
>> download a bigger tarball, fenics-2.0.0.tar.gz instead of
>> ufl-2.0.0.tar.gz. But apart from that, it would just be something like
>>
>> $ cmake -DFENICS_ENABLE_ONLY_UFL . # or similar...
>> $ make install
>>
>>
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