<h3>General</h3>
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+ <li> <p>
+ Extended: deal.II 5.0.0 didn't work with the PETSc release 2.2.1 (which
+ came out after we released version 5.0.0). This should now be fixed:
+ deal.II can be linked against both PETSc 2.2.0 and 2.2.1.
+ <br>
+ (WB 2004/10/07)
+ </p>
<li> <p>
- Improved: the documentation generated by Doxygen now states the header
+ Improved: The documentation generated by Doxygen now states the header
file defining a class. Furthermore, all <acronym>deal.II</acronym>
exceptions are listed as classes and will soon be found in the module
<tt>Exceptions</tt>.
need to have at least PETSc version 2.2.0 installed. Version 2.1.6 may
work in most cases, but you will get some (harmless) warnings during
compilation. Also, during testing with this version, we discovered a
- serious bug in the TCQMR linear solver which basically renders it
+ serious bug in PETSc's TCQMR linear solver which basically renders it
useless. All these problems have been reported and are supposed to be
fixed in 2.2.0. Versions prior to 2.1.6 are likely not to work, but have
- not been tested.
+ not been tested. While deal.II 5.0.0 could not be linked against PETSc
+ 2.2.1 (which came out after our version 5.0.0 and had a number of
+ incompatible interface changes), later versions of deal.II have
+ workarounds for PETSc 2.2.1.
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