On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:02:18 +0200, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:39:40 +0300, Aron Ahmadia < > aron.ahmadia at kaust.edu.sa> > > > wrote: > > > > cgparse/optparse do what I need. > > > > > > argparse is a nice improvement, but not in the standard lib prior to > > > 2.7/3.2. It's not clear to me why PETSc couldn't just use optparse (in > > > standard lib from 2.3). > > > > > > It can't. We investigated it before. > > Do you recall the reason why? I don't think it's ever been on petsc-dev.
We want them to be organized in certain ways, like sections for help. We want to do special processing for some types, like download. When I Iooked at these packages, it did not seem east to do. Matt > > Jed > -- 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/20100902/5b7e61a4/attachment.html>
