sfepy/sfepy — Issue #54: create a Sage spkg
Author: rc
Created: 2012-01-30 10:24:58+00:00
State: open

Looking at recent problems to install scipy and thus make sfepy work:

http://groups.google.com/group/sfepy-devel/browse_thread/thread/ae877e0f1cda2f67

I think we should create Sage spkg packages for the missing libraries, get
it to Sage so that anyone can easily install it and run it. Even on Mac Os X.

Installation of scipy+umfpack is a huge pain and a showstopper.

Migrated from http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/issues/detail?id=50

earlier comments

ondrej.certik said, at 2008-07-21T20:37:36.000Z:

See this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/532aa0ecfb5918b

ondrej.certik said, at 2008-07-21T20:40:22.000Z:

It's a long way, but we imho should get started. I think it's a worthy goal.

robert.cimrman said, at 2008-07-22T10:08:35.000Z:

I think that some of the issues discussed in the sage-support thread could be
accomplished as soon as we have the tensor calculurs capabilities in SymPy, no?

By spkg you mean http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/prog/node24.html, right?

Yes it is a pity that the best direct solver around is not an easy install on all
platforms.

ondrej.certik said, at 2008-07-22T10:21:20.000Z:

Yes. We will also probably need to create umfpack spkg as well. But I think it's
worthy. See the email I just sent to sage-devel:

http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/54b9ed3553b8d445

robert.cimrman said, at 2009-05-18T14:46:20.000Z:

I have now a sfepy sage package that can be installed within SPD [1], but several
packages that sfepy depends on are missing - we need spkg files for:

pyparsing
umfpack
pytables
ipython
mayavi2
multiprocessing (part of python 2.6)

pyparsing is crucial, nothing works without it, as it is used to parse the equations
and regions.

But 'import sfepy' works already :)

In [5]: import sfepy
In [6]: sfepy.__version__
Out[6]: '2009.2-release'
In [7]: sfepy.top_dir
Out[7]: '~/software/packages/spd-3.4.1.beta4/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sfepy'

[1] http://code.google.com/p/spdproject

ondrej.certik said, at 2009-05-18T19:07:38.000Z:

ipython is there too.

umfpack is on my todo, that will need a little more work. As to pyparsing, that
should be easy.

robert.cimrman said, at 2009-05-19T07:18:54.000Z:

True, ipython is there.

robert.cimrman said, at 2009-05-21T14:23:10.000Z:

A basic package is available in femhub [1], let us close this general issue and treat
specific problems in their own issues.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/femhub/