On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:17:52 +0200 Felix Schindler <felix.schind...@wwu.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 11:23 +0200, Jan Blechta wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:57:09 +0200 > > Felix Schindler <felix.schind...@wwu.de> wrote: > > I was trying to install fenics and dolfin on Arch Linux, following > > > [1], and ran into some problems. Maybe you want to update your > > > instructions accordingly: > > > > Could you make a pull request on > > https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/fenics-web/pull-requests/ ? > > > > Don't get me wrong: I'am an FOSS and contributions guy. But no, I do > not want to spent any resources on this atm. Otherwise I would have > done it from the beginning. Do you think that the maintainer would be interested in maintaining the instructions? You could provide him with your updates to create a pull request. Jan > > > > * python2-scientificpython is not available any more, I added a > > > package to the aur. You should thus list it under the aur > > > packages, not the ones installed with `pacman` > > > * metis should be named before parmetis, since it is a dependency > > > (more for cosmetic reasons, it does not really matter) > > > * The following aur packages have been renamed: > > > - instant-bzr -> instant-git > > > - fiat-bzr -> fiat-git > > > - ufl-bzr -> ufl-git > > > - drop ufc-bzr > > > - ffc-bzr -> ffc-git > > > - viper-bzr -> fenics-viper > > > > Why is there viper? It has been reimplemented in DOLFIN and > > deprecated about 2 years ago. Is it some ancient version of FEniCS > > stack? > > I truly have no idea! :) I do not know much about the components of > fenics. I just followed the steps reported on your homepage, found a > broken package in the AUR and fixed it. > > The main work is done in the dolfin-git package (not maintained by > myself), which builds the current HEAD (if I am not mistaken), so no > outdated fenics version. Now that you mention it: viper is not one of > the dependencies of the dolfin-git package, so it can be completely > removed from the list (and I will remove the package from the AUR). > > Best, > > Felix > _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list fenics@fenicsproject.org http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
