I think we (Barry, the Royal We) should write a FAQ entry for "Why we change the API". It follows along the line of Jed's reply to Michele, and lets the user know that while his short term goals are not the same as PETSc, our long term goals are aligned and we are acting for the long term.
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/20121017/a08ce155/attachment.html>