Camm Maguire schrieb: > Greetings! > > Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently liaising with the author of F2J (Fortran to Java) to >> create a JNI (Java Native Interface) so that it is possible to call >> the BLAS/LAPACK libraries directly from within Java. >> >> Work on this has almost finished... however, most of the LAPACK >> community has now moved onto LAPACK-3.1 and Ubuntu are still using >> LAPACK-3.0. In order to cater to the lowest common denominator, this >> is forcing me to exclude JNI support to all the new functions on all >> operating systems. >> >> I was wondering if you could please update the version of LAPACK in >> Ubuntu Gutsy to 3.1 so that I can remove this restriction on my >> package. >> >> Thanks and kind regards, >> > > This is currently in progress. I had decided to get the gfortran > transition in first, but there appear to be portability issues which > might take a reasonable time to fix. I suppose a separate lapack3.1 > is in order while this is worked out.
I don't think that another source package will help us that much; yes, we can only have one version of a package in experimental, but then you should be able to have the other version on another site (e.g. people.debian.org). Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

