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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:52:01PM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> 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.

So it sounds like it would be reasonable to drop support for 3.1 but
definitely keep 3.2.

--
Anders