Hi, I would like to recommend the xmds package for inclusion into cygwin. xmds is the eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator and is way to quickly and easily solve differential equations in any arbitrary dimension. It is used frequently in physics and has wider utility in fields such as mathematics, engineering and even chemistry and computational biology. It is released under the GPL version 2 and is therefore OSI-compatible. See its web page at http://xmds.sourceforge.net for more information.
I have packaged up xmds within cygwin using the script based packaging procedure on the cygwin website and the package files have been uploaded to: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=72795 where they are signified by the "cygwin" in their filenames (sorry about having to do that, but it was the best way to differentiate the files which are currently uploaded). These files were only renamed to have "cygwin" in the filename; they were originally packaged as per the cygwin packaging instructions and did not have "cygwin" in the filename initally. The setup.hint file is appended to the end of this email. It would be great to get xmds into cygwin! Any feedback about the package would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Paul category: Science Math requires: cygwin gcc-c++ fftw3 libfftw3-devel sdesc: "eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator" ldesc: "eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator. XMDS is a code generator that integrates equations. You write them down in human readable form in a XML file, and it goes away and writes and compiles a C++ program that integrates those equations as fast as it can possibly be done in your architecture."
