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[Anton Gladky <gladky.anton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jerome,

2012/7/4 Jérôme Duriez <Jerome.Duriez@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> Compilation of Yade is the first step for new users, which are moreover
> probably not so familiar with computer science than you, and probably it
> still appears quite complicated. So I would recommend to keep things as
> simple as possible.

I agree, that is why I recommend for new users to use pre-built packages,
which is very easy to install. Most of users do not need to make changes
in source code.

> In a new user mind framework : it could be thus useful to remove indeed all
> what concerns the scons way (it will be still in trunk history, as for any
> change, no ?). At least, if the two still exist, speak about only one in the
> documentation !

That was already done.

> On the other hand, for "existing" users minds, the change from scons to
> cmake will probably be annoying. But this holds for each piece of
> development...
>
> Jérôme
>
>
> PS : in my opinion such things could be discussed on yade-users rather. It
> concerns each user of Yade, and maybe some will have opinions, more precise
> than mine !

It was announced about a month ago [1]. And, it seems, all found issues
were fixed.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/yade-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg04798.html

Anton