Anders Logg wrote: > > Release early and often is a good thing. There just hasn't been much > pressure to get a release out for a while (probably since most > users/developers use the hg version anyway). > > Do open projects which use DOLFIN make releases which rely on the hg version? Could someone from such a project comment on what they do? What does Simula do when they make a release of open software which relies on DOLFIN? > 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? > 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.
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