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 _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
