On Mar 12, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 13:57, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > > 3. Move all private headers from include/private/ to include/petsc/ > > (convention adopted by hundreds of packages) or include/petsc-private/ > > (like Tk). > > I prefer petsc-private because if one installs in the xxxx/petsc/ you get > this stupid looking xxxx/petsc/include/petsc. Better > xxxx/petsc/include/petsc-private > > I agree that petsc/include/petsc is stupid. I see no reason to change the > perfectly logical include/private just to match what > some idiot programmers did. > > Don't any of you look at /usr/include? Hundreds of packages put one (or a > small number) public header at $prefix/include/package.h and place all their > private headers in $prefix/include/package/*.h.
But we don't have this model. We have petscvec.h petscsys.h etc etc. then the model breaks down. Hence I like the petsc-private. Jed gets what he wants and I get what I want. Plus it doesn't break the current PETSc application code. Barry
