Peter R.

I agree in large extent on the observations. However, all reorganization is not as easy and often falls down on resources. Also one main concern on reorganization is indeed the...

Here we rely (perhaps on too old) external libraries. Of course you're rigtht that the code should not crash even in this case.

We would of course be happy to stay tuned with library developments. Unfortunately the current Elmer team lacks some skills here so whereas we can pretty quickly write a new...

There are scripts that work with msys2. Even make the packages including Qt5 and MPI. The only important library missing is oce (OpenCascade community edition). See, http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physics/elmer/bin/windows-test/

This is my list of installed packages in msys2. oce not yet functional. ~~~ pacman -Sy pacman --needed -S bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime ! exit msys & restart pacman -Su...

This is really an error of the MPI installer that comes with Elmer installer. Not much we can do about it. The user should know whether to install MPI or...

ARPAKC has been a part of Elmer for a long time and I think the API has been tailored for Elmer needs. Also some bugs have been fixed (probably these...

The files have indeed been written in Latex. First parts of the documentation comes from the 90's and then that was the only tool to make pretty formulas. I know...

Yes, I agree that today Markdown would be preferable particularly for the community. Certainly if we would start from scratch the choices would be very different in many respects. I...

The known keywords can be found in $ELMERSRC/fem/src/SOLVER.KEYWORDS Additionally, I sometimes use compilation flags "DEVEL_KEYWORDMISSES" and "DEVEL_LISTCOUNTER". The first one writes missing keywords to file and the 2nd one counts...