On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 18:08, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > >> This does not help AT ALL. How is it bad? I use it all the time just fine, >> so I was not changing it unless there were complaints. > > > If you can just update your scripts to only support petsc-dev, then no big > deal. But if you have a project that wants to support several versions of > PETSc, you would need to maintain multiple versions every time an API > changes. BuildSystem does not have a stable API: try building today's > petsc-dev using BuildSystem from last year or building last year's petsc > using today's BuildSystem. >
No argument. That is why PETSc only supports a single version of anything. Doing anything else is untenable. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20110311/41f53c58/attachment.html>
