I started playing around with the Vagrant installation yesterday and it seems like a very attractive way to distribute FEniCS. It's also very easy to understand and get started with.
By recommending Vagrant as the default installation method, we can guarantee that all users have the exact same environment, which will take away 90% of installation support questions. Related to this, I think we should discuss which installation methods we should officially support. With fewer options, we can do a better job with the remaining options. I would suggest: 1. Official Vagrant VM (always based on the latest Ubuntu release) The Vagrant provision script can build FEniCS + dependencies from source and can replace Dorsal for those of us who want to build natively on Ubuntu. 2. Official Debian/Ubuntu packages (as we have now) 3. Manual installation from source (with better instructions than we have now) -- Anders On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:17:39PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote: > We have a new, experimental installation approach for FEniCS that is based on > Vagrant and virtual machines. It will hopefully make the installation of > FEniCS simple and easy on a wide variety of platforms. Instructions on using > Vagrant for FEniCS can be found at: > > https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual > > So far, it’s been tested on Windows, OSX and various Linux distributions. If > you try it out, any feedback is very welcome (both successes and failures). > Specific technical issues can be registered at > > https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual/issues > > Recent versions of Vagrant support Docker (Linux containers), so we may look > to integrate the work of Lizao Li on Docker into an ‘official’ Vagrant-based > VM and Docker installation system. > > The Vagrant-based system for FEniCS builds on the work of Jack Hale. > > Garth > > > _______________________________________________ > fenics-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-support _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
