Re: ITSOL interface

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 06/05/2013 10:17 AM, Wei Jin wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 07:48 +0200, c. wrote:
> > this message from Wei Jin to the maintainers list
> > was rejected due to its large attachment so I moved it to the
> > patch tracker :
> >
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?8068
> >
> > it might be a good starting point for Kai's project but I'd rather
> > get rid of the mex files and make use of Octave's C++ API all over.
>
> ilut.cc, iluk.cc are implemented by using Octave's C++ API. other mex
> style files are easy to transform to original Octave API version.
>
> > Thanks to Wei Jin for his contribution.
> >
> > c.

Also from my side, thank you very much for your code Wei Jin! I will 
make use of your interface. For the moment I'm not sure how far I use 
your preconditioned GMRES implementations, that I'll decide later.

On 06/04/2013 11:58 PM, c. wrote:
>
> touch ../octave/libinterp/dldfcn/chol.cc
> make
>
> takes about 10s on my system
>
> c.
>

Pretty nice, this works for me in a minute, too. Haven't expected this!

On 06/05/2013 12:06 AM, c. wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2013, at 18:43, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 2) There is an advantage in interfacing to ITSOL
>>    rather than including the source code in Octave,
>>    i.e. it will reduce the burden on Octave developers
>>    for maintaining the code at a later time.
>>   So I'd rather not dismiss
> this option before discussing it on the list.
>
> c.
>

On my way to the Debian/Ubuntu package of ITSOL 
(http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/itsol) I get faced with an older 
version (2011-09-11) of Saad's current (2012-10-26) ITSOL package that 
is unfortunately connected with interface updates (functions were renamed).

Has anyone experience in updating debian packages? I hesitate to annoy 
the maintainer Dominique Belhachemi with a bug report (because it isn't 
a bug).

Kai.