Is there anything you can point me at for a primer on what's changed between
fipy 1.2.1 and the trunk version?   I'm trying to update my old code to work
with the newer version so I can use PyTrilinos.

Best Regards,
Angus Hendrick



On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Angus Hendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Guyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Angus Hendrick wrote:
>>
>>  Next I managed to obtain a working version of fipy 1.2.1 rev 2744 using
>>> numpy 1.2.0 by doing the following:
>>>
>>> 1.  svn update (to get from whereever I was to rev 2744)
>>>
>>
>> I have a feeling this didn't do what was expected. What do you get from
>> `svn info`?
>>
>
> svn info showed me I was using the wrong branch: current.  I checked out
> the branches/version-1_2 version (which you had noted when you mentioned the
> patch, but I overlooked), and the fix you described for numpy was there.
> Once again, my personal code runs without problems using numpy 1.2.0, but
> still running setup.py test produces the same error I mentioned
> previously.
>
> As for the installation problems I had for the trunk version (mentioned in
> a separate message), they went away after I upgraded my setuptools from
> 0.6c8 to 0.6c9 (thanks again).  However I still get a segmentation fault
> running the tests.  Here it is:
>
> (following many successful tests...Doctest:
> fipy.terms.transientTerm.TransientTerm ... ok
> Doctest:
> fipy.terms.powerLawConvectionTerm.PowerLawConvectionTerm._Alpha._calcValuePy
> ... ok
> Doctest:
> fipy.terms.exponentialConvectionTerm.ExponentialConvectionTerm._Alpha._calcValue
> ... ok
> Doctest: fipy.terms.equation._Equation.__add__ ... ok
> Doctest: fipy.terms.equation._Equation.__neg__ ... ok
> Doctest:
> fipy.terms.upwindConvectionTerm.UpwindConvectionTerm._testPecletSign ...
> Segmentation fault
>
> I may try going with a still newer version of numpy, the svn version is at
> 1.3x.
>
> If you have trunk/ (which you'll need for using Trilinos with FiPy), then
>> we've got some instructions in INSTALLATION.txt. There's also some collected
>> wisdom from our summer students at http://matforge.org/fipy/wiki/SURF2007All
>> of that seems geared toward Trilinos 7.0.9. Trilinos 9 was just released
>> and I don't think we have any experience with trying to build that, nor do I
>> know how things may differ for Trilinos 8.
>>
>
> Thanks I'll look at all those.  I got Trilinos to build, but after glancing
> at these instructions I'm redoing it presently using the configuration
> options in INSTALLATION.txt.
>
> Best,
> Angus
>
>

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