On 6 Nov 2014, at 15:01, Garth N. Wells <[email protected]> wrote: ...
> > I suggest that we support 'official' scripted installations for the latest > version of Ubuntu. There can be (i) an apt-get version, (ii) a stable version > build, and (iii) a dev version. I suggest these three because this is what > we'll support in the Docker/Vagrant approach > (https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual). Via Docker/Vagrant, the > scripts can be tested by anyone independently of their host OS. > > An advantage of a limited number of 'official' scripts is that they can be a > template (to read) for those installing on other platforms. Simple scripted > installation for HPC systems is not viable because users don't have root > access, and the machines are too varied and are usually very different beasts > from the nominal installed distribution. > > For OSX, I'd like to see FEniCS in Homebrew Science > (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science). A downside of this is that > some of the Homebrew packages on which DOLFIN depends are rather limited, > e.g. Homebrew PETSc isn't configured with a decent LU solver. > > More generally, we could ease the burden of installing Python packages by > having good pip support. FWIW, installation of PETSc (with whichever configure flag you like) via pip is pretty much fire and forget (assuming the base dependencies are in place). If the python installation procedure is via pip too, this may be something worth looking at. Lawrence
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