Mon Jan 05 2015 at 12:03:46 PM skrev Garth N. Wells <[email protected]>:

>
> On Mon, 5 Jan, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here are some thoughts on a possible developer workflow (partly)
> > based on HashDist.
> >
> > The current HashDist-based installation (fenics-install.sh) seems to
> > work relatively well (yes there are bugs but Johannes has been very
> > good at fixing them). Users and developers both can now easily build
> > from source an entire FEniCS stack including both dependencies and
> > FEniCS components.
> >
> > However, for developers that need to work on features/bugs for a
> > specific FEniCS package (say FFC or DOLFIN) it is less clear how to
> > base the workflow on HashDist.
>
>
> Related to this issue, when we switched to git the thought was to
> consider submodules/trees once we were comfortable with git. I think
> the time is right to take a look. Subtrees could be helpful:
>
>
> http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Advanced-Merging#_subtree_merge
>
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt
>
>
Yes. I will have a closer look.


> > So, after some discussion with Johannes, here is a suggestion for a
> > common workflow (which not everyone needs to follow, of course, but
> > something I imagine would make life easier for many of us):
> >
> > 1. Users and developers alike build dependencies + FEniCS using
> >
> >     fenics-install.sh
> >
> > 2. For each FEniCS-package, we add a script named
> >
> >     local-install.sh
> >
> > For DOLFIN, we simply rename cmake.local --> local-install.sh and for
> > the other packages, we add a corresponding script which calls
> > setup.py with the proper flags.
>
> If this is just a re-naming, it's fine with me.
>
> > 3. The script local-install.sh installs under local.$BRANCH and
> > generates a file named local.$BRANCH.conf that can be sourced.
> >
> > This way, one may have one or more HashDist profiles under
> > ~/.hashdist containing as many FEniCS stacks with deps as one needs,
> > and for each relevant package one is working on, as many local/branch
> > builds as one needs, and those development/debugging builds don't
> > need to be installed "system wide" (as in landing somewhere under
> > ~/.hashdist), which means one always has one or more working FEniCS
> > stacks under ~/.hashdist for production work.
> >
> > Would this be a good idea? Comments or objections?
> > If there are no objections, I can make the required changes.
>
> I suggest not pushing to master before the 1.5 release.
>

ok.

--
Anders



> Garth
>
> > --
> > Anders
> >
>
>
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