[email protected] writes:

> On 2014-01-27 15:41, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
>> On 01/08/2014 01:07 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>> I'd suggest that FFC and UFC keep their own config/build systems (with 
>>> the C code that crept into FFC being cleaned out), and have a 
>>> top-level config/build script for installing both packages and running 
>>> tests on both packages.
>>> 
>>> With uflacs eventually being merged into FFC, that will leave us with:
>>> 
>>> - UFL
>>> - FIAT
>>> - FFC + backends
>>> - Instant
>>> - DOLFIN
>> 
>> The above sounds good to me. Any obstacles left?
>> 
>
> I'm wondering if there are any issues from a packaging perspective 
> (Debian, MacPorts, etc) if FFC and UFC use different build/installation 
> systems? If this is an issue, we could experiment with git subtree to 
> bring FFC and UFC into one repo. My preference is still for a single 
> 'project' as originally proposed.

There shouldn't be any problem from a packaging perspective. For
example, in MacPorts a port can specify that it is obsolete and has been
replaced by another port. The obsolete port then gets deleted after
about a year or so.
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