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[Johan Hake <hake.dev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/27/2013 09:54 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, 26 February 2013, Anders Logg wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:57:12AM +0100, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
>     > On 26 February 2013 10:07, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx
>     <javascript:;>> wrote:
>     >
>     > > On 26 February 2013 01:16, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx
>     <javascript:;>> wrote:
>     > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Martin Sandve Alnæs
>     wrote:
>     > >
>     > >> - I think the two-way split (keeping dolfin separate, joining
>     at least
>     > > >> ufc-ffc-ufl) sounds most compelling and carries less risk.
>     > > >
>     > >
>     > > Even more granular would be ufc-ffc. That way, FFC would contain all
>     > > the code formatting.
>     > >
>     > > > I'm still tempted by having one big repo.
>     > > >
>     > >
>     > > I'm inclined to stay close to the status quo. If a big repo is
>     > > contemplated, someone should make one and we can test if it's
>     workable
>     > > with bzr. It may just be too big and bzr too slow.
>     >
>     >
>     > The best way to do such things is usually gradually. The first
>     steps could
>     > be:
>     > 1) Move ufc into the ffc repo.
>     > 2) Move dolfin wrapper generation back from dolfin to ffc?
>     > In these cases there are no big history and patching issues,
>     > so this can be done soon with no issues whatsoever (but
>     > preferably after we merge the work in progress by Anders and I).
> 
>     Sounds like a good start. Any objections to this?
> 
> 
> No.
>  
> 
> 
>     Does this need we need to use CMake for FFC?
> 
> 
> I do like the simplicity of the Python install for FFC over CMake.

If we are going to keep each project in different sub directories we can
keep distutils for ffc.

 ffc/
     ffc/
        setup.py
        ...
     ufc/
        CMakeList.txt
        ...

Johan

> Garth
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>     Anders
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> Garth N. Wells
> Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
> http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~gnw20
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