Ok, the deed is done. I have pushed the changes to petsc-dev Please report and problems to petsc-dev or petsc-maint as soon as you see them. Barry Begin forwarded message:

From: Barry Smith <[email protected]> Date: July 25, 2008 5:02:31 PM CDT To: [email protected] Subject: New approach for external direct solvers in PETSc Reply-To: [email protected]

petsc-dev users,

I have finally completed my changes to PETSc for a new approach to accessing external direct solvers in PETSc like Spooles, MUMPS etc. I will be pushing it to petsc-dev sometime the middle of next week. If you are using the direct solvers you might consider cloning from

http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/hg/petsc/petsc-dev-new-solvers or

ssh://[email protected]//hg/petsc/petsc-dev-new-solvers

and trying it out before then. Please report problem to [email protected] as you hit them.

Barry

From the changes file

The "parallel direct solver" matrix types like MATAIJSPOOLES are ALL gone. Now you use -pc_factor_mat_solver_package spooles etc or PCFactorSetMatSolverPackage() or if working directly with matrices, MatGetFactor(A,MATSPOOLES,...)