Just a guess, maybe we can contact metis upstream with the question of relicensing it under distributable license?
Anton On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Christophe Trophime <christophe.troph...@lncmi.cnrs.fr> wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Anton Gladky wrote: > >> Hi, Adam! >> >>> Sounds good, thanks. I notice you also added the interfaces you need >>> for gmsh to Bug 506033, thanks. >> Ok, done. >> >>> For Elmer, I noticed that it could do node-wise or element-wise >>> partitioning, and just disabled the element-wise partitioning which used >>> METIS_PartMesh* functions. Is it possible to do something similar for >>> gmsh? >> >> I just shortly looked at the code, but it seems, that the >> functionality of metis-module will be seriously restricted, if those 2 >> functions will be disabled. >> >> Anton >> >> > > Hi, > last week I met gmsh guys > They told me that they prefer to use metis instead of scotch because metis > provides some multiconstraint partionning... It seems that scotch upstream > has no > plan to develop such features right now. > > So my feeling is that we shall disable metis support in the present version > of gmsh > or consider to make a gmsh-metis package which will goto to non-free as an > alternative. > This solution may be great as we can take full advantage of the latest gmsh > developments. > > Best > C > >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazel...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Hi Anton, >>> >>> Sounds good, thanks. I notice you also added the interfaces you need >>> for gmsh to Bug 506033, thanks. >>> >>> For Elmer, I noticed that it could do node-wise or element-wise >>> partitioning, and just disabled the element-wise partitioning which used >>> METIS_PartMesh* functions. Is it possible to do something similar for >>> gmsh? >>> >>> -Adam >>> >>> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 17:46 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: >>>> Thanks for answers, I have uploaded a new version with disabled metis. >>>> >>>> Anton >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazel...@debian.org> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi Anton, >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 07:29 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: >>>>>> Hi, all! >>>>>> >>>>>> I am trying to package gmsh 2.5.1~svn version and to fix lintian >>>>>> errors and warnings. But I have a problem with linking against >>>>>> packaged libscotchmetis. The following error appears: >>>>>> >>>>>> Linking CXX executable gmsh >>>>>> /home/dk/gmsh/nv/upl_metis/gmsh-2.5.1~svn9373/Mesh/meshPartition.cpp:527: >>>>>> error: undefined reference to 'METIS_mCPartGraphKway' >>>>>> /home/dk/gmsh/nv/upl_metis/gmsh-2.5.1~svn9373/Mesh/meshPartition.cpp:502: >>>>>> error: undefined reference to 'METIS_mCPartGraphRecursive' >>>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >>>>> >>>>> The scotchmetis compatibility layer is not a complete reimplementation >>>>> of METIS. Bug 506033 requests addition of PartMesh functions; these may >>>>> also be missing. >>>>> >>>>> I or someone else should probably forward these requests upstream and >>>>> see if there is some prospect of implementing these functions... >>>>> >>>>> -Adam >>> -- >>> GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 >>> >>> Engineering consulting with open source tools >>> http://www.opennovation.com/ >>> >>> -- >>> debian-science-maintainers mailing list >>> debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org >>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers >>> >> >> -- >> debian-science-maintainers mailing list >> debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktimcrr9slmehmdmfd1hfywlyqde...@mail.gmail.com