[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: SUNDIALS shared libraries

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Andrey Romanenko <andrey at enginum.com> [2005-10-28 23:39]:

> Will it be possible to make a smooth transition later? I am asking
> because I really have little packaging experience. Actually, sundials
> is my very first go at it :)

It depends on your definition of "smooth transition".  For the
libsundials-*-serial packages themselves, the transition si not
problematic, it is just a matter of adding "Conflicts" and "Replaces"
fields to debian/control.

On the other hand, the packages depending on libsundials-serial will
have to be rebuilt with the right dependencies once the libsundials
package is split.

> I can speak about CVODES only.
> We use it in our Newton-type nonlinear model predictive control package that 
> is written in C, C++, and Fortran. Once it is released, I will make a .deb 
> package out of it, but I am afraid it is too specific to make it into 
> mainstream Debian :) 
> From what I gathered attending a few recent conferences, not many people were 
> aware of the existence of SUNDIALS and they were eager to try it. So, I 
> believe the number  of applications using SUNDIALS is definitely going to 
> grow. And I may be mistaken, but I think there is no other free software 
> alternative for CVODES at the moment.

Sounds good.  For now, I think we should release a unique
libsundials-serial package, to avoid bloating the archive.

-- 
Rafael