[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Adding FEniCS to repository

[Johannes Ring]

On Fri, October 17, 2008 11:35, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> 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.

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.

Okay, I see.

> Btw, is swiginac still maintained?

Yes, it seems like it is. The Subversion repository was last changed in
August.

Johannes