Gmsh 4 package available for testing in Community Extras PPA

[kkremitzki]

Hi, I posted this in Open Discussion but figured I might post here as well in case people don't see it there.

In the FreeCAD Community Extras PPA (https://launchpad.net/~freecad-communit ... ubuntu/ppa) I have uploaded a Gmsh 4 package. Unfortunately it only works on Ubuntu 18.04 because of a dependency. I gave it a very brief test and it seemed to run a little slower. I'd appreciate any feedback you all have on the package. Thank you!

[bernd]

wow cool!

Kurt do you know which package would be very very useful to have. The main FreeCAD FEM solver Calculix ccx has not been updated in Debian for a while. It is on 2.11 but 2.14 has been released. Since CalculiX gets steady improvements and fixes we miss a lot already. See https://packages.debian.org/search?suit ... lculix-ccx

bernd

[bernd]

wow cool!

Kurt do you know which package would be very very useful to have. The main FreeCAD FEM solver Calculix ccx has not been updated in Debian for a while. It is on 2.11 but 2.14 has been released. Since CalculiX gets steady improvements and fixes we miss a lot already. See https://packages.debian.org/search?suit ... lculix-ccx

bernd

related https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31161

[kkremitzki]

wow cool!

Kurt do you know which package would be very very useful to have. The main FreeCAD FEM solver Calculix ccx has not been updated in Debian for a while. It is on 2.11 but 2.14 has been released. Since CalculiX gets steady improvements and fixes we miss a lot already. See https://packages.debian.org/search?suit ... lculix-ccx

bernd

Ah, I didn't know about this problem, I can definitely look into it!

[bernd]

[Jee-Bee]

@kkremitzki give a finger and @bernd take the hole hand(dutch saying what means basically taking / asking morexthan is given)

[kkremitzki]

@kkremitzki give a finger and @bernd take the hole hand(dutch saying what means basically taking / asking morexthan is given)

Hah, but I don't mind, I'm already nearly done with the update. Updating from, say, 2.11->2.14 generally is not too bad, but for example this Gmsh 3->4 upgrade was quite tricky.

[kkremitzki]

I just uploaded the 2.14 build for Bionic, time to see how it and the other releases proceed.

[kkremitzki]

Alright, the builds went off without a hitch, so it's now available for Bionic, Xenial, and Trusty. I couldn't find a complete changelog but here's the 2.13->2.14 changes: http://www.dhondt.de/new_calc.htm

[bernd]

wow fast ! Which one should I use best on Debian Stretch ?