Bug#675207: [Dolfin] Please binNMU python-ufc against latest swig

[Johannes Ring]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Johan Hake <hake.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/2012 09:46 AM, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Anders Logg<logg at simula.no>  wrote:
>>> Does it work if you remove those checks in
>>>
>>>    dolfin/site-packages/dolfin/compilemodules/compilemodule.py
>>>    dolfin/site-packages/dolfin/compilemodules/jit.py
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> Yes, it works fine, but I also had to remove the check in
>> ufc_utils/build.py in UFC.
>>
>>> If so, we might turn those into warnings.
>
> Not sure why we would like to do that? If we are going to ship precompiled
> binaries we better make sure all packages including JIT compiled stuff are
> using the same SWIG version.
>
> We have not got any reports of this not working (because we have prevented
> it), but I think it would be gambling to allow this. If an error occur it
> will most probably be very cryptic and implode the user experience.

Good point.

> Can't this be handled by some elaborated debain version logic?

The simplest solution would be to rebuild UFC and DOLFIN whenever a
new version of SWIG is added in Debian. That's why i requested a
binNMU. Not sure if it would be possible to automate this in some way.

Johannes