Agree! -- Anders
fre 11 sep. 2015 kl 10:11 skrev Garth N. Wells <[email protected]>: > I would like to propose that we switch to DOLFIN supporting PETSc 3.6 > only. Martin has just reported a number of bugs that in all likelihood are > due to bugs in the Ubuntu/Debian PETSc 3.4 package, or in old versions of > PETSc dependencies. Finding work-arounds for these is not a good use of > anyone's time. > > A consequence of bumping the PETSc version is that the Debian/Ubuntu > packages would no longer be configured with PETSc. This isn't such a big > deal since: > > 1. I understand that the Debian/Ubuntu PETSc package is without a > maintainer, so is likely to disappear at some point; > 2. Anyone who needs PETSc should be using a supported version of PETSc, > which at present means building it themselves; > 3. PETSc is for performance and parallel simulations, in which case it > should be configured for the machine it's used on; and > 4. With the fallback of EIgen for linear algebra, a DOLFIN package without > PETSc would still be fast in serial and a wide range of linear solvers are > available. > > Garth >
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