Hi all,

the next release (2022.3, due to the end of September) will contain several important user-oriented changes. Originally, the sfepy package was meant to be used mostly in-place in the source tree - the main scripts were directly there. In order to facilitate the installed use as well as to allow using pip, the scripts now reside in sfepy/scripts/ directory and new entry points are installed to the executable path.

Short summary (<path> is the path to the sfepy directory relative to the users directory):

python3 <path>/simple.py example.py -> sfepy-run example.py

python3 <path>/resview.py example.py -> sfepy-view example.py

python3 <path>/script/convert_mesh.py -d 3 mesh1.mesh mesh1.vtk -> sfepy-convert -d 3 mesh1.mesh mesh1.vtk

python3 <path>/script/blockgen.py -> sfepy-mesh block

python3 <path>/script/show_mesh_info.py cylinder.vtk -> sfepy-mesh info cylinder.vtk

A pre-release version with the above changes is available on PyPI, you can try it with

pip install sfepy

(or "python3 -m pip install sfepy")

It should install sfepy and all its required dependencies. Some optional solvers are not installed automatically (e.g. petsc4py or scikit-umfpack). The installation can be tested using

python3 -c "import sfepy; sfepy.test()"

Feedback welcome.

Best regards, r.