It also solves ODEs and SDEs, and I will be adding DDEs (delay equations) 
and differential algebraic equations ASAP. It implements more solvers for 
ODEs (with more tests) than ODE.jl, and implements more modern solvers for 
SDEs than SDE.jl. It also implements solvers for common (S)PDEs, and I am 
incrementally building more solvers to try and get something at least as 
general as MATLAB's PDE toolbox. Any package that I know of has to use 
different solvers for different types of PDEs, and I started with more 
basic ones first. Lastly, it implements a bunch of helper functionality 
that is associated with solving differential equations, like plotting 
solutions and running Monte Carlo experiments in parallel (for stochastic 
equations). I couldn't think of a better name than "this thing solves 
differential equations". I really don't see how that makes the package 
"specialized".

I agree that it still has a documentation issue. Taking in the solution 
should be a keyword argument there (it is for all the other problem types, 
that's just an error from an older version). Note that I am still not at 
v0.1: I want better documentation, a few more problem types / equations, 
and I want to clean up some areas to make it easier for other contributors 
to get started adding to the package, 

On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 5:31:24 PM UTC-7, Christoph Ortner wrote:
>
> this package implements just a couple of specific problems, as required by 
> its author. It is a nice package BUT
>
> it is far too specific to be called DifferentialEquations.jl. (in my view 
> anyhow) For me this is a problem with the package eco-system. Such 
> specialised packages should maybe not be in METADATA, or at least the 
> naming should be better controlled.
>

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