[petsc-dev] PETSc packages are way out of date

[Barry Smith]

   Satish,

    The link http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/petsc.html has a date of  
2005 and talks about PETSc 2.3 so this link is very confusing. Can you  
change this link to something more useful that tells people how to get  
debian's PETSc 3.0?

     Barry


On Apr 25, 2010, at 12:49 AM, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Barry Smith wrote:
>
>>
>>  The two PETSc packages listed on
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/download/index.html are  
>> totally out of
>> day, not updated since 2005!!!
>>
>>  Should we be managing our own Linux/Apple/Windows packages  
>> ourselves? Just
>> manage ./configure make make install model?
>
> freebsd is a bit old - so we should remove the link. debian is 3.0 -
> so still ok.
>
> I guess We should make our './configure make make install model' more
> packager friendly. Then its likely to trickle down to various
> distributions.
>
> The other stumbling issues wrt packaging are
>
> - dependencies [no support on windows/mac]. For ex: what compiler/s do
>  you build for? What do you do about fortran?
>
> - multiple install requirements [c,c++,complex builds].
>
> satish