Stable topics are being merged into master [1]. Problem is probably that PPA repository is not updated regularly - this is a question for Johannes.
As I said before, you should consider compiling from source to obtain latest (in fact arbitrary) master. You may optionally utilize dorsal to do this. Jan [1] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/commits/branch/master On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 18:56:26 +0800 Maximilian Albert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
