pymfem with gslib

[junkudo]

Hi, Are there active plans to introduce the gslib FindPoints routine in PyMFEM?

[sshiraiwa]

@junkudo Thank you for bringing this up.

Our minimum goal is to provide Python version of examples in the level directory (examples/ex[0-9]*). Externals beyond it depends on user's request, and I am happy to take a look at anything.

Just quickly looking into this, adding gslib seems not so complicated.

Generally speaking, the complexity of supporting an external library depends on

• if we can use the feature provided by the external only calling MFEM's access methods.
• if the external library can be built as standalone or it ends up introducing further dependencies.

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[junkudo]

I believe the MFEM's gslib find points satisfies those two requirements. I could give this a shot if you could point me to where the modifications should be made.

[sshiraiwa]

Thank you for volunteering to look into this. Let me put together a small how-to doc. I will come back to this after 4.3 wrapper release.