On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 00:51 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> (23/01/2012): > > deal.II detects the PETSc version and acts accordingly, I believe 7.1.0 > > will work through 3.2. I need to work on upgrading from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0. > > […] > > > Illuminator has major problems -- the PETSc object on which all of > > illuminator is based has changed drastically. This will require major > > upstream surgery, and the new version will not be data-compatible with > > the old. > > > > Since upstream is me, I can tell you I will not have time for the > > foreseeable future (couple of months at least) to port illuminator to > > PETSc 3.2. It will need to come out of testing when PETSc > > transitions. :-( > > […] > > > Can't speak for the others (dolfin, feel++, gmsh). > > That means one “OK-able” package, one “oops-broken-for-a-long-while” > package, and several “unknown-status” packages. To keep everyone as > testing candidates until this transition is ready, maybe re-uploading > petsc 3.1 would do the trick? (Either with an epoch or with the > 3.2-is-really-3.1-like dirty version.) This way, all packages can stay > in testing and be updated through unstable w/o having to be entangled? I think we're closer than that, we've been active for the past couple of weeks to make this happen. The only unknown at this point is feel++. Stuff to do looks like: * Upload a new petsc to fix some bugs (me, probably today) * Upload a new slepc with a tiny patch to add a header file (me, probably today) * Upload mpich2 from alioth to fix an RC bug (me, today or tomorrow) * Update to deal.II 7.1.0 (me, within a week) * Patch gmsh to work with petsc/slepc 3.2 (Christophe Trophime with my help, probably within a week) * Update DOLFIN (Johannes Ring, within a week) * Test/update feel++ (?? If nobody else I'll take a stab at it) * Remove illuminator from testing (release team) * Close the RC bug against mpi-defaults (which is pointless anyway because it transitioned just before I filed it, I'll do this today) It looks like there's a clear path to success, and this can all happen within a week or two, then we can transition a bunch of stuff at once including HDF5. Otherwise we're stuck trying to do two transitions which will take at least 4 weeks... Makes sense? -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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