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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:27:08PM +0100, Johan Jansson wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
> > Simula has never made an open release of software depending on DOLFIN.
> >
> > Ola can probably say something more about this.
> >
> >   
> Ok.
> >>> Depending on what state the code is in when someone asks for a
> >>> release, it may take from just a day to a couple of weeks to get a
> >>> release ready. So if you just ask for a release earlier (like a couple
> >>> of weeks before you need it), then it shouldn't be a problem.
> >>>
> >>> The dolfin-incremental thing looks like it complicates things. An
> >>> alternative would be to make automatic daily snapshots so you can
> >>> depend on dolfin-2008-01-16 for example.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> I don't think it's practical to depend on automatic snapshots, you would 
> >> have to time your commands to some daily or hourly script, it seems a 
> >> bit cumbersome. But sure, why not build on the snapshot system. When you 
> >> want a persistent snapshot release, you run the snapshot script with a 
> >> date tag. Or?
> >>     
> >
> > You mean not making automatic snapshots but having a script that takes
> > a snapshot with version number = YYYY-MM-DD?
> >
> > That could work. We just need to add a directory
> >
> >   http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/dolfin/snapshots
> >
> > and a simple script named makesnapshot (or similar) under scripts/ in
> > DOLFIN that runs the script and uploads. We can run this script
> > anytime at the request of anyone.
> >   
> Ok good, this would probably be enough to satisfy everyone.

ok.

> >>> On a related note, can we remove dolfin-stable and
> >>> dolfin-testing? They haven't been updated for 6 months
> >>>       
> >> I think we should have a working system in place before we remove old 
> >> systems. But they can be removed if we have a usable alternative.
> >>     
> >
> > But is anyone using them? They don't seem to be maintained
> No, they haven't been used lately. We've had a dolfin-kth repository 
> which has filled the function of dolfin-testing for the "unicorn-kth" 
> repository. But rather than extending such a setup to the FEniCS unicorn 
> repository, I think it's a better idea to develop against frequent 
> snapshot releases. So let's try that and remove dolfin-testing and 
> dolfin-stable.

ok, good. I have removed them.

-- 
Anders