<code>DoFHandler</code> class, as well as extensions to the finite
element classes where descriptions of interface conditions to
other finite elements on neighboring cells are needed. While
- the latter is probably straightforward, the first is a major
- task and is not planned for the immediate future. We would,
- however, offer advice if anyone wanted to implement this.
+ the latter is straightforward, the first is a major
+ task. We are presently working on this and hope to have something in
+ the near future for at least discontinuous elements.
</p>
<li> <p>
<li> <p>
<strong>A better test-suite:</strong> We have a small
- suite of programs (approximately 140 programs with roughly
- 30,000 lines of code at present) that are run automatically
+ suite of programs (approximately 150 programs with roughly
+ 32,000 lines of code at present) that are run automatically
for regression tests each night. Some of these are modified real-life
applications, so they should cover a relevant part of the
library, but it would be necessary to reach every corner of
a good choice, since it can be converted into many other
formats, including printable ones and ones which can be
nicely displayed on the screen. This would require that some
- document-generating scripts produce SGML instead (or in
- addition) to HTML, and some other tweaks, but is probably no
- big deal.
+ document-generating scripts produce SGML instead of (or in
+ addition to) HTML, and some other tweaks, but is probably no
+ big deal. It just needs someone with appropriate knowledge.
</p>
<li> <p>
eventually be made better. The most outstanding example is
the way we build shared libraries; for this, the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html"
- target="_top">libtool</a> utility may be a help.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Regarding shared and static libraries, there may also be
- another open problem in that we don't call
- <code>ranlib</code> on static libraries (or <code>ar
- -s</code>). This has no particular reason, it is simply that
- we don't know what is the right thing to do in a
- cross-platform way. Help in the configuration of these things
- would be greatly appreciated.
+ target="_top">libtool</a> utility may be a useful.
+ Help in the configuration of these things would be greatly
+ appreciated.
</p>
</ul>
</p>