On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:58:53 +0100 Maximilian Albert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I recently needed a dolfin feature that is only present in the > development version, so I upgraded my Ubuntu packages to use the > nightly snapshot releases (available at [1]). > > However, I was wondering whether it is advisable to use the nightly > snapshots on a daily basis for my work? Do I understand correctly that > the current git workflow is designed to make sure that 'master' (which > is the branch used for the snapshots, I presume) is always in a state > that makes it safe for production-type code to use it? Hi, there were some persisting problems in master with new geometry library replacing CGAL dependency, see [2-4]. Perhaps, they're now solved. This was only one issue causing I needed to stop pulling the newest master for some actual work. Otherwise it worked fine. BTW, it seems that last available DOLFIN in PPA is from June 18, see [5]. There is an alternative option of using dorsal script [6] to build development releases by yourself. If you invest some time into making it working for the first time, then it should work without any intervention for months until some dependency is bumped. [2] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/92 [3] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/97 [4] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/82 [5] https://launchpad.net/~fenics-packages/+archive/fenics-dev [6] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dorsal Jan > > Perhaps it's even recommended to use the nightly snapshots so that > users can give instantaneous feedback to the FEniCS developers for > bleeding-edge features, newly designed APIs, etc.? > > Thanks for any clarification, > Max > > [1] http://fenicsproject.org/download/snapshot_releases.html > _______________________________________________ > fenics mailing list > [email protected] > http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
