[Dune] Building dune 2.1

[Christian Engwer]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:47:22AM +0100, Andreas Lauser wrote:
> Hi Dune,
> 
> On Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012 you wrote:
> > One problem with the tar ball is, that the am/ directory is not linked
> > to one of dune-common, but copied and then distributed.
> > Rebuilding all tar balls just because of one small patch is really not
> > what we want.
> 
> I guess that distributing broken tarballs is also not desired...
> 
> IMO it would make sense to release a 2.1.1 version of all modules for 
> independent reasons, i.e. to avoid confusion for users. The following dialog 
> is quite possible:
> 
> Developer: what version of DUNE do you use?
> User: I use 2.1.0
> 
> Even though the problem might be dune-common and that could be either 2.1.1 or 
> 2.1.0.

I agree... the core modules should have a consistent numbering. We
provide them as a package. If I remember correctly, we even dicussed
this question some year ago on a dev.meeting and decided exactly this
policy. I remember that we once had a bug-fix release where only
dune-grid was changed, but we released new tarballs for all core modules.

Christian

> cheers
>   Andreas
> 
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