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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:32:27AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> On 20 August 2012 10:06, Joachim Berdal Haga <jobh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I get a compile error with missing "MatSetNearNullSpace", using PETSc 3.2p6
>> > (the version that dorsal picks).
>> >
>>
>> Doral should be updated to PETSc 3.3 and SLEPc 3.3.
>>
>> Whether or not we support PETSc 3.2 is another question. I would
>> certainly advocate dropping support for PETSc 3.1.
>
> I think it depends on what can be easily packaged and which packages
> are available.
>
> Are there packages for PETSc 3.3? Ubuntu only seems to have 3.1, not
> even 3.2.

No, there are packages for 3.2 in Debian but not 3.3. I can backport
the 3.2 packages to Ubuntu if we drop support for 3.1, but making
packages for 3.3 would be much harder.

Johannes