[petsc-dev] easyinstall for petsc4py

[Barry Smith]

  Lisandro,

    We would like to help you make it possible for petsc4py to be installed by easyinstall and automatically install PETSc with it, thus making it trivial for Python users to start using petsc4py. How can we help make this happen?

    I image the petsc4py install would look for mpi4py, if it finds it then figure out the MPI used to build it and pass that MPi information on to PETSc's configure. If it does not find mpi4py then it would tell PETSc configure to not use MPI. If this doesn't make sense, I just made it up so I can understand it might not make sense, tell us how it should work.

    We would also like to add some nightly tests for petsc-dev/petsc4py-dev and help keep petsc4py-dev in sync with petsc-dev. Satish can you check into how you can add this?


   Thanks

    Barry