You need to get QCT. That makes it easy for me. I believe it works for OSX now.
Matt On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > Toby, > > Yes, hg comments too terse. > > Barry > > My problem is that hg commit doesn't show my changes and so sometimes I > don't have a clue what I changed and hence write a poor comment. We need a > technical solution that somehow forces and helps useful comments. > > > On Jan 8, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Toby D. Young wrote: > > >> Thanks. I was confused by the directory layout because if I read the >>> man pages at >>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation >>> they are all from the release. I can browse development docs at >>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/docs/ >>> but the changes at >>> >>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/docs/changes/index.html >>> are from the release, and in particular >>> >>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/docs/changes/dev.html >>> does not exist. >>> >> >> What really pisses me off, is that the comments in the petsc-dev hg log, >> often don't adequately describe why something is changed. Sometimes I find >> some critcal change, like "ThisFunction has been removed"; but no note, >> reference, or hint as to why or where to go from there... This just makes >> using petsc-dev hard if you are not paying *very* careful attention to >> the mailing list and thus know why these (often important, sometimes >> inexplicable without documentation) changes take place. >> >> While I do somewhat agree with, for example, "Barry's law of development", >> that, "PETSc developers should not pander PETSc users", I also very >> strongly believe that "PETSc users should not have to pander the whims of >> the PETSc devlopers". A decent documentation of changes in petsc-dev (say >> in hg at least!) would very much help remedy that situation from an >> outsiders (my) point-of-view! >> >> Possibly I've gone off on a tangent in this thread... >> >> With best intentions, >> Toby >> >> >> ----- >> >> Toby D. Young >> Assistant Professor >> Philosophy-Physics >> Polish Academy of Sciences >> Warszawa, Polska >> >> www: http://www.ippt.gov.pl/~tyoung <http://www.ippt.gov.pl/%7Etyoung> >> skype: stenografia >> >> > -- 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/20100108/d21fa588/attachment.html>
