[Dune-devel] Alberta: State of the union?

[Christoph Grüninger]

Hi Dune!
What's the current state of Albert? It has been in some kind of extended
maintenance mode for the last couple of years, but I am not sure, what
to think about it at the current state:

- The Dune page describing Alberta's installation is outdated: Link to
"recent nightly builds" is broken and gets redirected to the generic
IANS homepage. OpenSuse packages were removed as they failed to build
years ago. A link to IANS' GitLab is missing. I'll update this page
(!371), but still, it is a sign that there are not many people who care
about Alberta.
- Our build systems has issues with Alberta, but there are no vocal
complaints. Alberta won't adapt, we have to get it working on CMake's side.
- Who is maintaining Alberta? Who is advocating Alberta's concerns
within Dune? Claus did most with regards to my first question, not sure
about the second one.
- If you don't find the release tarballs on IANS' GitLab page, it's
really tricky to build Alberta. You have to look into MAINTENANCE,
ignore all the outdated stuff about Solaris, Subversion, and Alberta 2.0
and find that using the script fromsvnreconf.sh is still the way to go.
- Debian package is still 3.0.1, not 3.0.3.

Please don't take this as a rant. I appreciate all work and all the
effort made over the past years!
We have three major grids we advertise (e.g. bindings are/were part of
dune-grid), as they were the historic foundations of Dune: ALUGrid, UG,
and Alberta. I am not sure, whether Alberta should still remain first
tier and would like to hear your perception.

Bye
Christoph

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