Sounds very nice. I know from speaking to quite a number of people that new users often struggle when trying to build DOLFIN, and they are often unsure of which dependencies are required and which are optional.
A challenging target would be to support Windows. Will the buildbots run the scripts? Garth Harish Narayanan wrote: > I'd like to announce a release of Dorsal, a bash script for building > many FEniCS projects (featuring DOLFIN) and their dependencies for > various platforms. A primary goal of the project is to lower the barrier > of entry for people curious to try out DOLFIN. > > At the moment, it works reasonably cleanly for the following environments: > > * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 > * Ubuntu 8.04 LTS > * Mac OS X 10.5 (with fink) > > I envision more platforms being supported in the future as each of these > are relatively straightforward to set up; one just needs access to them > to iron out any system-specific kinks. Let me know if you're interested > in tweaking it for other platforms. > > Some URIs: > > A (sparse) Wiki page: http://fenics.org/wiki/Dorsal > Its hg repository: http://www.fenics.org/dev/dorsal/ > Occasional snapshots: http://home.simula.no/~harish/files/projects/dorsal/ > > Harish > > > > _______________________________________________ > DOLFIN-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
