Bug#734262: ITP: xmds2 -- eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>
* Package name : xmds2
Version : 2.1.4
Upstream Author : Graham Dennis, Andy Ferris, Joe Hope, Michael
Hush, Mattias Johnsson, and Gabriel McManus
<xmds-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
* URL : http://www.xmds.org/
* License : GPL2
Programming Lang: Python
Description : eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator
XMDS is a code generator that integrates equations, from Ordinary
Differential Equations (ODEs) up to stochastic Partial Differential
Equations (PDEs). You write them down in human readable form in an XML
file, and it goes away and writes and compiles a C++ program that
integrates those equations as fast as it can possibly be done in your
architecture.
XMDS 2 is a major upgrade rewritten in Python which is faster and far
more versatile than previous versions, allowing the efficient
integration of almost any initial value problem on regular domains.
Note that a xmds package exists in Debian for version 1. The upstream
authors renamed the program to xmds2 in order to allow the co-existence
of both versions in the system. They did that because the format of the
*.xmds files changed in version 2 and there still may be users around who
need version 1. The issue of having both versions packaged in Debian has
been discussed in the debian-science mailing list:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2014/01/msg00005.html
BTW, the maintainer of the xmds2 package will be the Debian Science Team.
A preliminary version of the Debian package can be built with
git-buildpackage from the Git repository at:
git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-science/packages/xmds2.git
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