I would like to start switching to PETS 3.4 now - a motivation is that the fix to https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/287 is trivial because we can just remove the buggy code that works around a PETSc 3.2 issue.
Speak up quick if you have an objection. Garth On 31 Jan 2014, at 14:42, Nico Schlömer <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this change scheduled for right now or are we waiting till 14.04 is > released? > > --Nico > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Garth N. Wells <[email protected]> wrote: >> DOLFIN supports PETSc back to v3.2, but this leads to very messy code (take >> a look at dolfin/nls/PETScSNESSolver.cpp!) and makes testing difficult. >> >> The motivation for keeping support for v3.2 was that it was available in >> Debian/Ubuntu as a package. However, Debian and Ubuntu 14.04 now ship with >> PETSc 3.4. I'd like to suggest that we drop support for 3.2 and 3.3 and >> support only PETSc 3.4 and PETSc-dev. Thoughts? >> >> Garth >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fenics mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
