[Dune] installation problems

[Bård Skaflestad]

Hi Christian,

I guess I wasn't particularly clear in what I said earlier.  I'm sorry about the confusion.

Just in case you don't know, starting with version 1.5 Mercurial has a feature that resembles the svn:externals mechanism.  Specifically, a Mercurial repository may specify a list of external repositories (Mercurial or Subversion), possibly tagged with specific revisions, in such a way that a "hg clone" will download those sources as well (typically into sub-directories).  The mechanism is somewhat fragile but a nice convenience when it works.  The feature improved a lot in version 1.7 of Mercurial.

Just to be clear: We're *not* cloning (or modifying) the official Dune modules.  We're "just" providing a list of (core module) revisions that are known to work with "our" modules.  I do try to update the list on a fairly regular basis but there were a lot of changes to Dune during November and December and I've fallen behind on my testing.  I fully agree that using older modules is likely to trip up users who aren't fully adept with an advance repository topology and, as in this case, lead to confusion as to what causes problems.


Bård
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From: dune-bounces+bard.skaflestad=sintef.no at dune-project.org [dune-bounces+bard.skaflestad=sintef.no at dune-project.org] On Behalf Of Christian Engwer [christi at uni-hd.de]
Sent: 16 January 2011 16:45
To: Dune
Subject: Re: [Dune] installation problems

Hi Bard,

> I very much suspect that Akil has downloaded the core modules
> through a sub-repository of the Mercurial sources for OPM modules for
> Dune that are hosted at SINTEF.  In that case there is great
> likelihood that the modules in question are

is there a particular reason for  cloning the repositories? I think it
is better if people download dune from the official repositories. It
is very easy to access these via mercurial, e.g. Ole and Dan are doing
this for a while already.

Either these repositories are  just a copy, then they should always
be uptodate and even then I don't see a good reason for cloning
them. Or you have patches that aren't part of the official repositories,
then you should try to get these changes into to Dune instead of
forking.

Christian

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