From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:41:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Re-word the supported platforms list. Update mailing list address. X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0~1935 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1257875dd9da7963c528770b99f835d693aedc19;p=dealii.git Re-word the supported platforms list. Update mailing list address. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@27162 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/navbar.html b/deal.II/doc/navbar.html index 8f7dcfcd73..b6c72dd745 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/navbar.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/navbar.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ deal.II navigation bar - + @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ FAQ
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diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html index bbb9dc291b..c4fa3c0423 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html @@ -51,54 +51,44 @@

Supported platforms

- At present, deal.II has been - developed and tested on the following platforms: - - Newer versions of the compilers listed above are also likely to - work, as are other brands of Unix (for example Sun Solaris, - FreeBSD, or Linux on chips like SPARC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, etc) using - gcc as compiler, but we do not regularly test them.

- There are of course many other C++ compilers out there though - they seem to become fewer and fewer. Our experience is that with - most of them some part or other of the C++ standard is not - supported and they eventually fail on a project as large as - deal.II. Some may in fact work if one puts in enough time, but - your best bet is probably to stick with the ones listed above. + deal.II is mostly developed on Linux using the + GCC compiler. However, it is not + platform specific and we strive to keep the source code C++ + standard compliant.

- deal.II uses only very few features of an - operating system. It should therefore be rather simple to port it - to other systems, at least with the compilers stated above. If - your system is not on this list, take a look at the page that - describes porting the library - to new systems. + We expect that deal.II should work on the following + platforms: +

+ Most other combinations of POSIX-style operating systems and C++ + standards compliant compilers should also work. If they don't, please + report it as a bug. +

+ +

+ There are many C++ compilers out there. Our experience is that, + unfortunately, most of them do not fully support the C++ 1998 standard + upon which we build, and they eventually fail on a project as large as + deal.II. Your best bet is to stick with the ones listed above. The only + platform where this is not trivial is Microsoft Windows where the widely + used Microsoft Visual C++ compiler simply has too many bugs supporting + advanced C++ code.

@@ -108,31 +98,14 @@ In order to compile and use the deal.II libraries you need to have the following programs installed: