On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jan Blechta <[email protected]> wrote: > Stable topics are being merged into master [1]. Problem is probably that > PPA repository is not updated regularly - this is a question for > Johannes.
Yes, the nightly binary snapshots for Ubuntu are currently out-of-date. I will take a look but I can't promise when they will be up-to-date again. 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 _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
