Why not recognize both? It's fairly trivial to check for PETSC_CONF if PETSC_ARCH is undefined and internally define PETSC_ARCH using PETSC_CONF.
Boyana -- Boyana Norris, Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory norris at mcs.anl.gov, +1.630.252.7908, http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~norris/ On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> > wrote: > > I guess the argument is that on occasion in the future a certain > number of people will misinterpret the meaning of PETSC_ARCH > frustrating them and us; the number misinterpreting PETSC_CONF will > be much smaller or zero saving people's time and energy. > > This will be far outweighed by the number of people complaining > about such a change. I agree with them. > > Matt > > Barry > > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > I see the point, but this is one of the oldest parts of PETSc, and I > am hesitant to change one > arbitrary name to another without a more convincing reason. > > Matt > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> > wrote: > > Lisandro has pointed out to me several times that the variable name > PETSC_ARCH can be confusing; some people may think it is related to > the architecture of the machine and don't understand that it is an > arbitrary name that the user can make up. He suggested changing it > to PETSC_CONF to be clearer. > > Should we change it? Use something else? > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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/20091130/0fbc0351/attachment.html>
