On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote: > >> I agree that it is not "user visible", but that does not mean I don't >> want documentation on it. >> > > There is no documentation on it now. We haven't made web pages for > internal structures in the past. I don't use web documentation for private > interfaces and I think it's a little dangerous to do so because it > encourages people to include petsc-private/ headers and then scream at us > when we change everything. We already have enough beginners on the mail > list that accidentally tried to use developer level routines. > I am not sure I buy this argument, which is the same one that people in Trilinos use to avoid releasing source. I think it would be helpful in development. 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/20130115/7eeb92b1/attachment-0001.html>
