[SciPy-Dev] ode and odeint callable parameters

[Benny Malengier]

2016-01-20 12:28 GMT+01:00 Irvin Probst <irvin.probst at ensta-bretagne.fr>:

> On 20/01/2016 12:21, Benny Malengier wrote:
>
>>
>> There never have been many maintainers for the ode functionality. I
>> looked at what would be needed to add odes into scipy, but the recent work
>> on ode in scipy is not trivial to move (like the complex_ode method). The
>> work is too large for me to consider, the API of ode too different from ode
>> in odes scikit. So you would end up with odeint (for those wanting that
>> interface with LSODA), ode (for those wanting a VODE/ZVODE/DOPRI/RK method
>> ... approach with the added features), and odes (for those wanting the
>> modern features in sundials (roots, sensitivity, Krylov)). That seems
>> worse. In the end I have a feeling most advanced users with stiff problems
>> just use one of the python interfaces to sundials, be it via octave,
>> assimulo, or odes scikit.
>>
>
> Is that the kind of task for a Google SoC student ?
>
>
It was on the list of SoC to work on the ode part 2 years ago. Not last
year. If there are mentors in the current contributors to scipy, it can be
on it again I assume.

Benny

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