On Fri, 11 May 2007, Yi-Feng Adam Zhang wrote:

I am a Software Engineer, working for Sun Microsystems. My team is called Open Source Team. Our intend or goal is to make some significant invest on Open Source Community to support them to make their software or solution available on Solaris and Sun Grid. Both of them are open sourced now: www.opensolaris.org, https://sungrid.dev.java.net/ and http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ PETSc is a well known with high-profile community in Scientific Computing area. I'd like to port PETSc to Solaris OS 10 for X86 Platform and make it available on Sun Grid Compute Utility which is available from http://www.network.com . If everything is OK both on technical side and license side.

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/copyright.html I don't think there is an issue with redistribution from the license side. And PETSc compiles on may platforms with different types of compilers [including sparc-solaris, sun compilers on linux etc..], so I don't see any technical issues with here.

I'd like to release a Solaris Package on the Internet, Maybe PETSc website, https://sungrid.dev.java.net/ or other 3rd party website. So the developers including Solaris developers or Sun Grid Developers can use or adopt the PETSc with a already-built Solaris Package.

PETSc keeps evolving with patch updates and new releases every so often. Do you see the work of providing "PETSc for opensolaris binaries" as a continues package maintainance effort? [or just a one time port..] Its just that one time ports have been attempted before - and they get out-of-date before they were even released [so they were not very useful]

BTW, I find I can't subscribe or use another alias: [email protected] which is mainly for installation & compilation questioning. Is this alias still working?

This address is still valid and used for all correspondence to petsc developers - thats not appropriate/relavent to public mailing lists. Satish