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ARPACK for 3.6.0
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From: |
John W. Eaton |
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Subject: |
ARPACK for 3.6.0 |
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Date: |
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:29:08 -0500 |
On 12-Dec-2011, Rik wrote:
| Was there any decision about how to handle ARPACK and Qhull for 3.6.0?
| There is no bug report in the bug tracker for either item so they will
| currently be ignored as gating items for the release. I see the following
| as possible actions.
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| ARPACK
| Remove ARPACK code from Mercurial control
| Point users to external release of ARPACK library
This part I can do.
| Program configure.ac to check for an external ARPACK which has the bug
| fixes we need
I don't know how to write a test to do that reliably. As I recall,
the failures were not predictable. So how can we check to be sure
that ARPACK has the bug fix(es) we need?
jwe