Documentation

Documentation is available for Trilinos Release 8.0, Release 7.0, Release 6.0 and Release 5.0, as well as the Development Branch. There is also a Users Guide available in PDF.

• Development Branch The primary focus of the development branch will be improving automated documentation, portability, robustness and memory management for packages that use the Teuchos::RCP<> class.
• Release 8.0 In the 8.0 release, all of PyTrilinos has been returned to a self-contained package, removing the python sub-directories of the packages that support a python interface. You should therefore use --enable-pytrilinos to enable it; --with-python=path can be used to specify the particular python you wish to compile against; and --enable-python is being deprecated. The NOX wrappers have been re-enabled, and working Anasazi wrappers have been added.
• Release 7.0 As with the 6.0 release, all of the wrapper code is contained within each package, residing in a python subdirectory. PyTrilinos can therefore enabled equivalently with --enable-python[=path] or --with-python[=path]. With version 7.0.6 and later, --enable-pytrilinos works as expected. Note that with future releases, --enable-pytrilinos will be the preferred method for enabling the package, that --with-python=path will be available for specifying the version of python to compile against, and --enable-python will be deprecated. Note that NOX wrappers have been diabled for the 7.0 release.
• Release 6.0 In the 6.0 release, all of the wrapper code is formally a part (python subdirectory) of the package for which it provides python support. Use the equivalent --enable-python or --with-python[=path] configuration options. This will build, compile and link the python wrappers for every enabled package that supports python. The --enable-pytrilinos configuration option is still supported, but of practical use for developers only. PyTrilinos is itself still a Trilinos package, providing utility classes and functions shared by all the PyTrilinos modules, as well as a central repository for documentation. It is automatically enabled when --enable-python or --with-python is specified. Both serial and MPI builds are supported.
• Release 5.0 In the 5.0 release, all of the wrappers are a part of the PyTrilinos package. Trilinos must be configured for a serial build and the Epetra, EpetraExt, NOX and NOX-Epetra packages must all be enabled for the --enable-pytrilinos configuration option to work.
• N.B. For the near-term future at least, we highly recommend using GNU make and configuring with the --with-gnumake option. It is known that the NOX wrappers will fail to build on certain operating systems if this is not the case. We are currently working to lift this restriction.