[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Adding FEniCS to repository

[Ondrej Certik]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr at simula.no> wrote:
> Hi Ondrej,
>
> On Fri, October 17, 2008 10:11, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>> SyFi:
>>> Description: finite element engine based on symbolic mathematics
>>>  The finite element method (FEM) package SyFi is a C++ library built on
>>> top of
>>>  the symbolic math library GiNaC. The name SyFi stands for Symbolic
>>> Finite
>>>  Elements. The package provides polygonal domains, polynomial spaces,
>>> and
>>>  degrees of freedom as symbolic expressions that are easily manipulated.
>>> This
>>>  makes it easy to define finite elements and variational forms. These
>>> elements
>>>  and forms are then used to generate efficient C++ code.
>>>  .
>>>  SyFi is similar to FFC in the sense that it has a compiler that
>>> generates
>>> UFC
>>>  code based on variational forms and finite elements. It is also similar
>>> to
>>>  FIAT in the sense that it implements many different finite elements.
>>
>> Indeed, great contribution. I was trying to compile SyFi from source
>> and it failed,
>
> I just recently changed the build-system in SyFi to a SCons based
> build-system. Did you use this build-system when it failed or the old
> autotools system?

I used the old autoconf system. I didn't have time to investigate, so
it was probably something trivial.

I can see here:

http://www.fenics.org:8010/syfi/

that it should build.

>
>> so I am looking forward for your package that I'll just
>> apt-get install.
>
> Yes, if you are in no real hurry to try out SyFi, you can just wait for
> the deb-packages.

Yes, I'll do that. I also just subscribed to the syfi mailinglist, as
I am also using FEM and also we are developing sympy, so I am
interested in collaboration.

Ondrej