Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #40039, comment 8


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  • Ticket #40039, comment 8

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    3737> Instead of a hypothetical situation, do you have any examples? I have updated most of the ports (in my side repo) to use the newest version of MeTiS / ParMeTiS but might have missed some. Since it's a very, very simple change (usually two lines of code change), I would rather push others to update their code.
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    39 I don't have a particular example (except MUMPS itself), but suppose I want to install versions of Mumps, SuiteSparse, SuperLU, ... not provided by macports - then I have to do the patching myself (or manually install metis 4). Metis 4 was the standard for more than 10 years when there was no development there; scientific codes are usually conservative in that you don't want to touch what works, so people do not easily change to metis 4 (look at Mumps and SuiteSparse).
     39I don't have a particular example (except MUMPS itself), but suppose I want to install versions of Mumps, SuiteSparse, SuperLU, ... not provided by macports - then I have to do the patching myself (or manually install metis 4). Metis 4 was the standard for more than 10 years when there was no development there; scientific codes are usually conservative in that you don't want to touch what works, so people do not easily change to Metis 5 (look at Mumps and SuiteSparse).