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

[Håkan N. <ha...@ch...>]

Dear Rostislav,

Yes, that file seems to be related to the 1.4.1-dev version. It is up to
Hrv to keep it, delete it, or update it. Most slightly experienced
OpenFOAM users realize this and simply compile the software as it is it
described at openfoam.org, i.e. 'the usual way'.

It is in fact quite easy to install the dev-version. You just get the
revision you want from openfoam-extend and type ./Allwmake in the root of
that version. This is similar to what you do if you compile all of the
vanilla version. Note that it requires that you have the third-party
products correctly set up first - you do that as described at
openfoam.org. In your case I think that you did not follow the
instructions at openfoam.org for setting up the environment and installing
the third-party products. Since you didn't provide any error messages it
is difficult to say more than that.

Note that you are dealing with a development line, meaning that some
revisions might give you error messages while compling. As long as you
will not use the libraries those error messages are related to, you don't
have to care about this.

Please don't be so upset about some minor mistakes, and instead see how
much you get for free from lots of people who didn't get anything back
from you yet. I'm sure that you can set up a support contract with some
developer to keep all the README files typo-error-free, but for most
developers it is in fact the code itself that has the highest priority.

Best regards,
Håkan.

> 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
>
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