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). |
| 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 5 (look at Mumps and SuiteSparse). |