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https://fem-on-colab.github.io
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Breaking change: FEniCS and NGSolve packages have changed installation URL #29

Closed francesco-ballarin closed 7 months ago

francesco-ballarin commented 8 months ago

FEniCS must now be installed from

https://fem-on-colab.github.io/releases/fenics-install-real.sh

NGSolve can be installed from either

https://fem-on-colab.github.io/releases/ngsolve-install-real.sh

or 

https://fem-on-colab.github.io/releases/ngsolve-install-complex.sh

depending on whether ngsPETSc is compiled with real or complex arch.

Users downloading from the old URLs are receiving an error message informing them of the change.

Similarly, FEniCSx and firedrake cannot be installed anymore from legacy installation URLs fenicsx-install.sh or firedrake-install.sh, i.e. URLs without -real or -complex suffix. Legacy URLs for FEniCSx and firedrake have been removed from the website instructions two years ago: since it's unlikely that anyone still uses them after not being advertised for such a long time, fenicsx-install.sh and firedrake-install.sh have been immediately dropped from the website, without any transition period or error message informing users of the change.

francesco-ballarin commented 7 months ago

The banner stayed displayed for two weeks, and has now been removed. Hard errors in https://github.com/fem-on-colab/fem-on-colab.github.io/issues/2 will remain available for much longer.