Looking for an Arch Linux Package maintainer for Z88 (FEM Solver)

[Kunda1]

Is there anyone willing to adopt maintainership of a new package: Z88.
There is a PKGBUILD ready to go at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 7#p1830477

Currently Z88 isn't a is a minimally supported FEM Solver in FreeCAD. But it may someday. Better adoption in the package ecosystem could facilitate it's use extending its support in FC.

Edit: @sgrogan corrected me

[sgrogan]

Currently Z88 isn't a supported FEM Solver in FreeCAD. But it may someday. Better adoption in the package ecosystem could facilitate it's use in FC.

Actually its minimally supported, just not all features. Z88 has a few components with varying licenses. On Win it's z88r that we need.

[bernd]

yep, what sgrogan wrote fits very well.

BTW: Z88 solver in FreeCAD seams not used by anyone ATM. The implementation was more a proof of concept to make FreeCAD FEM capable of work with multiple solvers. I knew Z88, it was OS, there was a package for Debian, I took Z88. I made it public on Z88 forum but noone was interested.

May be one day someone with interest will arise ...

[bernd]

BTW FreeCAD FEM runs with Z88 version 13 from debian too. But this is years, really years, around 5, old.

[Kunda1]

BTW FreeCAD FEM runs with Z88 version 13 from debian too. But this is years, really years, around 5, old.

Is it a lot to update to v15 ?

[Kunda1]

BTW FreeCAD FEM runs with Z88 version 13 from debian too. But this is years, really years, around 5, old.

Is it a lot to update to v15 ?

@bernd bump

[kkremitzki]

This is probably something I would take care of... last time I looked it didn't seem like it would be too much work to update Z88 but also not necessarily much benefit. (This could be a chicken-and-egg problem though.)

[sgrogan]

This is probably something I would take care of... last time I looked it didn't seem like it would be too much work to update Z88 but also not necessarily much benefit. (This could be a chicken-and-egg problem though.)

I agree. Given that time is limited, maybe netgen and it's python bindings would return more ROI, or VTK and It's python bindings, or paraview-python?
Maybe a poll in FEM? The question isn't would you like z88 packages, but rather would you like z88 or netgen python binding, for ex.

I wonder what @bernd would do with python bindings for netgen or vtk