Hi, just as a quick follow-up: I noticed that the the "nightly" snapshots at [1] were actually last updated in July. Is this a mistake? Or is the development simply happening in topic branches that haven't been merged into master yet?
Thanks, Max [1] https://launchpad.net/~fenics-packages/+archive/fenics-dev 2013/9/16 Maximilian Albert <[email protected]>: > Thanks Garth and Jan for the helpful information! Sounds good, I guess > we may give the nightly snapshots a go for a while and see how we get > on. > > Best, > Max > > 2013/9/14 Jan Blechta <[email protected]>: >> 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
