[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Adding FEniCS to repository

[Johannes Ring]

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?

> 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.

Johannes