Thanks Garth and Jan for the helpful information! Sounds good, I guess we may give the nightly snapshots a go for a while and see how we get on.
Best, Max 2013/9/14 Jan Blechta <[email protected]>: > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:58:53 +0100 > Maximilian Albert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I recently needed a dolfin feature that is only present in the >> development version, so I upgraded my Ubuntu packages to use the >> nightly snapshot releases (available at [1]). >> >> However, I was wondering whether it is advisable to use the nightly >> snapshots on a daily basis for my work? Do I understand correctly that >> the current git workflow is designed to make sure that 'master' (which >> is the branch used for the snapshots, I presume) is always in a state >> that makes it safe for production-type code to use it? > > Hi, > > there were some persisting problems in master with new geometry library > replacing CGAL dependency, see [2-4]. Perhaps, they're now solved. This > was only one issue causing I needed to stop pulling the newest master > for some actual work. Otherwise it worked fine. > > BTW, it seems that last available DOLFIN in PPA is from June 18, see > [5]. There is an alternative option of using dorsal script [6] to build > development releases by yourself. If you invest some time into making > it working for the first time, then it should work without any > intervention for months until some dependency is bumped. > > [2] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/92 > [3] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/97 > [4] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/82 > [5] https://launchpad.net/~fenics-packages/+archive/fenics-dev > [6] https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dorsal > > Jan > >> >> Perhaps it's even recommended to use the nightly snapshots so that >> users can give instantaneous feedback to the FEniCS developers for >> bleeding-edge features, newly designed APIs, etc.? >> >> Thanks for any clarification, >> Max >> >> [1] http://fenicsproject.org/download/snapshot_releases.html >> _______________________________________________ >> fenics mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics > _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
