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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johan Hoffman wrote:
> > We have made some progress on packaging FEniCS for Debian/Ubuntu...
> > Thomas Lunde has done an excellent job setting up the initial version of
> > the build scripts.
> ...
>
> Sounds great!
>
> > 5. Packages for Puffin and Ko are missing. Puffin depends on MATLAB and
> > I'm not sure it's worth the effort porting it to Octave. Is there any
> > interest in keeping this project? What about Ko? There hasn't been a
> > release in quite some time. Johan?
>
> I do not think Puffin is needed in a Debian package, but I think it is an
> important project for educational purposes, say in an itroductory course
> in FEM. In particular since in FIAT/FFC/Dolfin a lot of the basic FEM
> stuff is not very transparant.

Good point... :-)

> It may not be obvious that Puffin neccessarily must be a FEniCS project.
> But then again, why not?
>
> /Johan H

Yes, why not. I was just wondering if anyone was using it.

/Anders