Contributing

Contributions are highly welcome, in particular since only part of the PETSc functionality is currently being tested and has high-level interfaces.

You can thus help in many ways:

1. Add more examples
2. Add new tests
3. Update documentation
4. Report bugs
5. Add a high-level interface for unsupported features
6. Keep the routines up to date with future PETSc versions
7. Keep the precompiled binaries in PETSc_jll up to date.

Autowrappers

We originally used the function /wrapping/generatejuliabindings.jl to wrap the whole PETSc library, which borrows python routines by Barry Smith. The PETSc version for which we generated these original wrappers was 3.23.6.

Note, however, that a range of additional changes were necessary and we thus had manually fix a number of things. It is therefore not recommended to rerun these autowrappers for newer versions of PETSc. Since there are usually only a limited number of new or updated functions between PETSc releases, it is recommended to run the a wrapper only for these new functions and replace those affected accordingly.

Make sure that the tests work!

Adding new functionality

Please open a pull request to add any of the above contributions.