Scientific dependency was removed, at least partly, because of a lack
of Py3 support, see
https://bitbucket.org/khinsen/scientificpython/issues/1/python-3-support

Now there are also a tendencies to remove SymPy, see
https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/fiat/issues/8/remove-sympy-dependency

Jan


On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:16:50 -0500
Robert Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not sure why this happened, other than to eliminate a 3rd party 
> dependence.  The last I looked there was an attempt at doing the 
> derivatives symbolically with sympy, but I haven't messed with this,
> and it may not be hooked up to the functionals).
> 
> Please note that this was always quite experimental as ffc is
> currently incapable of dealing with derivative degrees of freedom --
> the transformations to the reference element are subtle.
> 
> Best,
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/27/2015 09:19 AM, Colin Cotter wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >  Just checking that people are aware of the regression in FIAT,
> > that one cannot specify pointwise derivatives as nodes anymore.
> >
> > I discovered this when trying to implement a Taylor basis element
> > in 1D. It still makes use of ScientificPython.Derivatives but the
> > import of ScientificPython on line 87 is commented out.
> >
> > all the best
> > --Colin
> >
> > -- 
> > http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/colin.cotter
> >
> > www.cambridge.org/9781107663916
> > <http://www.cambridge.org/9781107663916>
> >
> >
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