Very interesting. I believe we are beginning to see the first fruits of GPL'ing J source.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Konstantin L. Metlov <met...@fti.dn.ua> wrote: > Dear Raul, > > I have added the dependencies section to the web page (under release notes). > Hopefully I did not miss something. Please tell if I did. This is initial > release and I tested it so far on my computers only, which have a lot of > development tools and libraries installed. I might have used something not > realizing that it is not included by default. > > Also, right now (I'm actually on vacation at tip of the Berdyansk spit in the > Sea of Azov, working from my netbook) I have no access to any other platforms > then Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (at work and at home I have it too), so, compiling on > anything else right now is like swimming in "uncharted waters", you are on you > own. I hope in a few releases there will be much higher level of portability. > > Thank you for your feedback ! > > With the best regards, > Konstantin. > > On Thursday, June 28, 2012 08:15:04 pm Raul Miller wrote: >> You might want to include a section about dependencies. >> >> I tried download, but ./configure failed because I did not have >> sundials installed. >> >> I tried to get sundials v.2.5.0 from >> https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/sundials/download/download.html but >> that download failed with the server reporting: >> Could not create lock/30568.tmp (Permission denied). >> >> Anyways, especially when trying to resolve machine failures, I think >> it would help to have some certainty that the steps I am trying to >> complete are the relevant steps. >> >> > For some years I was thinking to do some large-scale numerical >> > mathematics with J. It was clear to me from the very beginning that J >> > can be an ideal language for this, very concise and efficient. But many >> > important ingredients were lacking, like routines for numerical >> > integration, Fourier transforms, ODE solving, vector field >> > visualization. There were some, of course, but scattered and >> > unsupported. >> > >> > This time, when I needed to integrate Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation >> > from magnetism on finite element mesh (to simulate dynamics of >> > nano-scale magnets), I decided to put together some bits and pieces >> > (including my own) in a form of simulation language I called J&+ ("with >> > J added", jplus or J+) and an ODE solver yacts. You can find the details >> > here: >> > >> > http://www.fti.dn.ua/~metlov/jplus/ >> > >> > Have a look ! >> > >> > With the best regards, >> > Konstantin. >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- John D. Baker bakerj...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
