Re: Sundials issues with ode15

[Carlo De Falco]

> On 22 Nov 2017, at 10:25, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Carlo de Falco-2 wrote
>>> It doesn't seem too difficult to update __ode15__.cc to use the new API,
>>> but it can be quite cumbersome to try and maintain both versions ...
>>> 
>>> Shall we support only the latest version of sundials?
> 
> I would say this is a bad idea unless you account for the lag most
> popular distributions update their sundials.
> In Ubuntu, for example, octave package would be delayed just because
> sundials doesn't update so fast
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/libsundials-serial
> 
> If you want to have the latest octave distributed with popular linux
> distributions you will have to package sundials with it?? (either as
> source code or link it statically).
> I think if user-pool is important (I think it should) this is not the
> proper way to go.
> 

I think this depends a lot on how far away in the future the Octave 4.4 release
is, the 4.2 branch does not use sundials.

c.