[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Adding FEniCS to repository

[Ondrej Certik]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr at simula.no> wrote:
> On Fri, October 17, 2008 10:33, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ok, hopefully this is fixed in the new build-system.

I just tried the latest hg version and indeed it works.

>
>> 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.
>
> Sounds good.
>
> BTW. The debian/* files for SyFi is probably the ones that requires most
> work. Now it is just one package, syfi, that includes libraries, header
> files, binaries, Python files and wrappers, and documentation. I guess I
> should split this package into packages like libsyfi, libsyfi-dev,
> syfi-bin, python-syfi, and syfi-doc. Also, to use SyFi from Python, one
> should install Swiginac [1] as well. AFAIK Swiginac is not available in
> Debian, however, I have created a package for it at my Ubuntu repository
> [2] and I therefore have the files ready. Is Swiginac something that we
> want to include into Debian? If so, I can add the files to the repository.

I suggest to maintain swiginac in the Debian Python Modules Team,
because it's a Python package. Btw, is swiginac still maintained?

Ondrej