From 340bab7c2ff91c629a711140fff08938da2ddd23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: guido
- Finally, we have a page where we list our - plans for extensions of deal.II in - the future. -
- -deal.II is copyright of the diff --git a/deal.II/doc/future.html b/deal.II/doc/future.html deleted file mode 100644 index 418ad1752b..0000000000 --- a/deal.II/doc/future.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,131 +0,0 @@ - - -
- - -- While we consider deal.II quite useful - in the present form, there are still many things that we would - like to implement in future versions. Among these are the following - topics: -
Multigrid: We are working on an - implementation of multigrid methods for - deal.II. While this is running on globally - refined grids, we are still having problems on locally - refined meshes. For those, multigrid is only applicable with - DG methods yet. -
- -
- The hp-method of finite elements:
- Implementing this will need a class analogous to the
- DoFHandler
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 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. The limiting
- factor to our present efforts is the number of developers.
-
- More output formats: - It would be nice to have the possibility of writing output in - more graphics formats. This is a simple task, since basically - only two files have to be modified and the interface is very - simple. In case you have an unsupported graphics program and - a student with half a week spare time, this is the right - project. -
- -
- More example programs:
- There are still many aspects of the library that are not yet
- covered by the example programs (in particular, on the list
- of things are the ParameterHandler
,
- block matrices,
- and the FilteredMatrix
- classes, but many other aspects as well). This is certainly
- something that should be improved, but is rather time
- consuming.
-
- A better test-suite: We have a - suite of programs (approximately 440 programs with roughly - 58,000 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, and some others test certain parts of the library - extensively, but it would be necessary to reach every corner of - the library to be sure a certain patch does not break - something. Also, a complete test-suite for the library would - be quite valuable for ports to new computer systems and - compilers. -
- -- Documentation: - Printing the documentation is probably not what one would - usually do anyway, due to the sheer size. However, it might - be useful to print, for instance, the example programs. There - might be more information worth printing in some cases which - I presently can't think about. -
- -- For these cases, it would be interesting to have them in - another format than HTML. We think that DocBook SGML would be - 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 of (or in - addition to) HTML, and some other tweaks, but is probably no - big deal. It just needs someone with appropriate knowledge. -
- -- Installation: - Some parts of the configure machinery and the installation - process are not as simple as they should be. This should - eventually be made better. The most outstanding example is - the way we build shared libraries; for this, the - libtool utility may be a useful. - Help in the configuration of these things would be greatly - appreciated. -
-- We believe in an open development model and would like to - encourage everyone to send us patches and extensions they have. We - think that a cooperative effort can improve the library much more - than a limited and closed circle of developers ever can. We are - therefore eager to review contributions by others for inclusion - into the library and to help in their development. Please feel - free to contact us in such cases! -
- - -- - Future -
-Publications @@ -83,6 +78,10 @@
+ www.dealii.org +
+ -- 2.39.5