Perhaps this was partly discussed in various threads. With the new release Jed suggested that we go with the standard release naming convention and switching patch updates from PETSC_VERSION_PATCH to PETSC_VERSION_SUBMINOR.
[I'm fine with this change but want to discuss a bit more] The new release numbers would be: petsc-3.4.0 [or should this be petsc-3.4 - like http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/?C=M;O=D ] petsc-3.4.1 petsc-3.4.2 etc And then: petsc-3.5.0 petsc-3.5.1 etc.. Currently we have PETSC_VERSION_PATCH & PETSC_VERSION_PATCH_DATE for representing the patch releases. We would have to remove PETSC_VERSION_PATCH - and change PETSC_VERSION_PATCH_DATE to PETSC_VERSION_SUBMINOR_DATE? [and some of these scripts would need fixing to work with this change] Satish ---------------- $ git grep PETSC_VERSION_PATCH bin/maint/builddist:version_patch=`grep '^#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH ' include/petscversion.h |tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3` bin/maint/builddist:#add in PETSC_VERSION_PATCH_DATE and PETSC_VERSION_GIT bin/maint/builddist:echo Using PETSC_VERSION_PATCH_DATE: ${version_patch_date} bin/maint/builddist: sed -e "s/#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH_DATE.*/#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH_DATE \"${version_patch_date}\"/" | \ bin/maint/createpatch:version_patch=`grep '^#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH ' include/petscversion.h |tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3` bin/maint/createpatch: sed -e "s/#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH .*/#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH ${new_version_patch}/" > include/petscversion.h bin/maint/rebuildtar:PATCH_VERSION=`grep '^#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH ' ${PETSC_DIR}/include/petscversion.h |tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3` bin/maint/submitPatch.py: patchRE = re.compile(r'^#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH([\s]+)(?P<patchNum>\d+)[\s]*$'); bin/maint/submitPatch.py: lines.append('#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH'+m4.group(1)+str(patchNum)+'\n') bin/petscnagupgrade.py: patchversion = int(re.compile(' PETSC_VERSION_PATCH[ ]*([0-9]*)').search(pv).group(1)) bin/petscnagupgrade.py: apatchversion = int(re.compile(' PETSC_VERSION_PATCH[ ]*([0-9]*)').search(pv).group(1)) config/BuildSystem/config/packages/PETSc.py: patchRE = re.compile(r'^#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH([\s]+)(?P<patchNum>\d+)[\s]*$'); config/BuildSystem/config/packages/PETSc.py: lines.append('#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH'+m4.group(1)+str(patchNum)+'\n') config/PETSc/petsc.py: patchRE = re.compile(r'^#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH([\s]+)(?P<patchNum>\d+)[\s]*$'); config/PETSc/petsc.py: lines.append('#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH'+m4.group(1)+str(patchNum)+'\n') include/petscversion.h:#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH_DATE "unknown" makefile: version_patch=`grep '^#define PETSC_VERSION_PATCH ' include/petscversion.h |tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3`; \ setup.py: 'patch' : re.compile(r"#define\s+PETSC_VERSION_PATCH\s+(\d+)"), src/sys/objects/version.c: ierr = PetscSNPrintf(version,len,"Petsc Release Version %d.%d.%d, Patch %d, %s ",PETSC_VERSION_MAJOR,PETSC_VERSION_MINOR, PETSC_VERSION_SUBMINOR,PET
