[Openfoam-extend-general] Development process of OpenFOAM-1.5-dev

[Rostislav S. <ros...@gm...>]

Hi together

first of all I'd like to ask you if this mailing list is the right way
to communicate with you? Seems like noone uses it.

Now about the development process - I just downloaded r1388 read
    Core/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/README
    Core/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/buildInstructions.txt
and tried
$ Core/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/Allwmake

the result is >100 errors. (the log is not attached it has > 330kB)
Seems like at first you just squash all the changes for a new version
to the repo and then some magic happens and... ok, whatever...

Here some questions and points
- which is the last compilable OpenFOAM-1.5-dev revision?
- Core/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/buildInstructions.txt obviously does not
belong to Core/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev. It's taken from OpenFOAM-1.4.1-dev.
Wrong build instructions might sound better than no instructions for
small projects but not for anything size of the openfoam - 800
Millions LOC
- keeping README and README.html containing the same is either just a
redundant effort or yet another source of errors - don't you think so?
(the same applies to the ReleaseNotes*)

Bost