I can try to put something in. Matt
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > Matt, > > It would be nice when some user types --xxxx-yyyyyy_zzzz and they meant > --xxxx-yyyyyy-zzzz it would give them a nice error message. This is made > difficult by the fact that superlu_dist name as an underscore in it. Are > there other special cases? > > Could we have BuildSystem barf with helpful error message whenever > someone puts an _ instead of - except when allowed like superlu_dist? > > We semi-regularly waste time with petsc-maint messages of people who > cannot distinguish _ from - > > Barry > > -- 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/20100104/7f5c07da/attachment.html>
