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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 06:26:44PM +0200, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> FYI, CMake 2.8.11 (rc2 just released) will contain support for
> ExternalData (aka those meshes):
>
> Introduced ExternalData Module
> * Keep source trees lightweight by storing data separately
> * Reference data unambiguously from source tree by content hash
> * Fetch on-demand during build from local or remote resources
>
> https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Modules/ExternalData.cmake

Sounds good to me. It would require using CMake for FFC, since we have
a similar problem there (storing the references used for regression
tests).

Another option would be git submodules. Florian suggested this to me
earlier.

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Anders