[dune-pdelab] PDELab release

[Oliver Sander]

This sounds all good to me.
Best,
Oliver

Am 05.05.2015 um 15:06 schrieb Steffen Müthing:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> with the core modules branched, we should start thinking about the release of PDELab 2.4.
> 
> Before we can branch off the release, there are still some issues to discuss and decide:
> 
> 1) What will be our minimum compiler requirements? I am *very much* opposed to anything
>     below 4.6, as that gives us range-based for, clear semantics for move operations (I’ve had some
>     nasty problems with autogenerated move member functions in 4.5) as well as constexpr.
> 
>     That said, my suggestion would be GCC 4.7, as that also gives us template aliases and delegated
>     constructors. Moreover, I am unable to run decent testing for GCC < 4.7 on my machine because
>     DUNE itself doesn’t support older GCC on OS X, so until we have some automatic testing infrastructure
>     and a development model that makes it easy to use such an infrastructure (e.g. pull requests), I’ll probably
>     break GCC 4.6 from time to time.
> 
> 2) What’s our position regarding ALUGrid? My suggestion is to simply require the new dune-alugrid
>      module and be done with it.
> 
> 3) Somehow related to this: Christian already did some work on cleaning up the heaps of deprecation
>     warnings due to the changed grid interface, but IMHO we should do a coordinated sweep of the
>     complete code base PDELab and the Howto and also take the chance to improve coding style in
>     general: range-based for loops (e.g. for quadrature loops), store inside and outside entities and
>     geometries in variables for better performance etc.
> 
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Steffen
> 
> 
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