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[Johan Hake <hake.dev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/06/2013 08:31 AM, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:17:36AM +0100, Johan Hake wrote:
> 
>>> Why not support both (as PETSc does)? A top level CMakeLists.txt
>>> descends in both the ffc subdirectory (calling distutils as e.g.
>>> described in this blog post:
>>> http://bloerg.net/2012/11/10/cmake-and-distutils.html) and ufc
>>> subdirectory.
>> This could be done, but we need the CMake for the the UFC extention
>> module configuration, which generates a Python module. Your example
>> above does not cover that case. As I understand it it is rather the
>> other way around: distutils need to call CMake.
> 
> Could the extension module utility be moved to DOLFIN? Or does it not
> fit in there?

I do not think it fits in there. It is pure ufc stuff. Anyone who
creates a ufc class can wrap it to Python using the ufc extension module
stuff.

Johan