[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: SUNDIALS shared libraries
Andrey Romanenko
andrey at enginum.com
Fri Oct 28 22:39:28 UTC 2005
On Friday 28 October 2005 23:09, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > And that brings up another question: should we split the sundials package
> > in several packages, something like
> > sundials-cvode-serial
> > sundials-kinsol-serial
> > and so on and then have a virtual sundials-serial package with
> > dependencies? This would allow a finer control and dependency
> > capabilities. For example, if CVODES gets updated, packages that depend
> > on, say, KINSOL should not be affected.
>
> This is a sensible idea. However, this may be an overkill until we
> have a substantial number of package depending on different components
> of SUNDIALS.
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 :)
> BTW, are there any plans to use SUNDIALS elsewhere than in Octave?
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.
Andrey
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