[petsc-dev] Scotch 6.0.8

[Smith, Barry F.]

> On Aug 27, 2019, at 3:22 AM, Lisandro Dalcin via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> There is a new scotch release. We should update configure to this version. I'm a bit confused about the current status PTscotch.py in BuildSystem, it seems to be using the scotch/master from the official repo.

It is using

   self.version          = '6.0.7'
    self.versionname      = 'SCOTCH_VERSION.SCOTCH_RELEASE.SCOTCH_PATCHLEVEL'
    self.gitcommit        = 'v'+self.version
    self.download         = ['git:https://gitlab.inria.fr/scotch/scotch',
                             'https://gitlab.inria.fr/scotch/scotch/-/archive/'+self.gitcommit+'/scotch-'+self.gitcommit+'.tar.gz',
                             'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/scotch-'+self.gitcommit+'.tar.gz']

which means it is using the tag v6.0.7 from the repo which in a sane world corresponds to release 6.0.7 exactly.

To switch to the new release just change the 7 to an 8; test and make a merge request. We are not official accepting merge requests yet but despite this people are shoving them in like crazy, you might as well join the crowd.

  Barry

We call it PTScotch, but they call it Scotch :-(


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