> I am interested in Ordinary Differential Equations package. But when I was > reading the conversations on the mailing list as well as on GitHub, someone > mentioned that quite a bit of work has already been done. So I want to know > the status as well as future prospects of the package ODE.jl . And there > also exists a Sundials.jl package which manages to cover most of the ODEs, > so is another package ODE.jl really required?
It is desirable to have ode-solvers which are pure Julia. Both to cut down on dependencies and to allow easy hacking and development. Further, Sundials.jl will not work with generic Julia datatypes (e.g. I think Julia sparse matrices are not supported for Jacobians). Thus, ODE.jl is to stay and to be improved on. The currently ongoing work of which I'm aware is: https://github.com/JuliaLang/ODE.jl/pull/49 https://github.com/JuliaLang/ODE.jl/pull/72 Needed work is: - more solvers - a unified code structure/API - parallelism(?) I'll try and update the GSoC description.
