Re: [Openfoam-extend-general] The patch-branch and the git-branch

[Håkan N. <ha...@ch...>]

> So I guess I'll have to have a test-installation that I
> apply patches to before upgrading the production version.
>
> How do you deal with issues like that?

I basically rely on you that there is no problem with the patch version 
:-)

My cluster administrator didn't really like that there should be a patch 
version that updates every now an then either. As you say, people might 
run into problems all of a sudden even if they are running the same code 
and the same case that worked before. That is not good.

It would be good with a solution where patched libraries do not rename or 
overwrite previous patches, and that one could choose which patch version 
that should be linked to by specifying the version number through an 
enviroment variable. I guess that there must be a solution for this, we 
are probably not the first to encounter this problem.

-- 
Håkan.

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