> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote: >> On Thursday May 27 2010 23:28:19 Kent Andre wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:52 -0700, Johan Hake wrote: >> > > You can controll this by setting the environment variable: >> > > INSTANT_CACHE_DIR >> > > >> > > to different directories for the different DOLFIN builds. >> > > >> > > If you use different conf files for the different DOLFIN builds you >> can >> > > easily controll the instant cache dir from within these. >> > > >> > > We once included the dolfin version in the cache id, but it was >> removed >> > > as it the ufc python module is not dependent on anything in dolfin. >> Not >> > > sure how true this is in reality though. >> > > >> > > What kind of troubles have you encountered? >> > > >> > > Johan >> > >> > The shared library in the cache is linked against another Dolfin and >> > therefore it wouldn't load. >> >> Ok I see. We are including the __version__ in the signature of the >> instant >> module, but if you are using the latest stable version together with a >> development version, you get the same version number, which wont trigger >> a new >> module. >> >> One way to fix this is to increase the version on all development >> versions. >> This would make sense as we are no longer developing the 0.9.7, which is >> released. We are developing 0.9.8, which is then reflected by the >> __version__ >> string. Other softwares use this convention too. >> >> If we want to be water proof we could look up libdolfin.so and take a >> md5 sum >> of the file and use that in the signature. We then need to use different >> suffixes and prefixes for the different platforms. > > We should set the number to "x.y.z+" right after the release. > > This is done in FFC (as part of the post-release hook) and it needs to > be done also in DOLFIN. I'll add this to the DOLFIN post-release hook. > > -- > Anders >
I think we should go for the water proof solution and use info either from the library or compiler options + version numbers. The compiler options solution might be the simplest portable solution (?). It should be simple enough to do. Kent _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
