On Jan 22, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >> When we first tried to follow “community standards” with —prefix I >> was told that “community standards” did not recognize the need for >> multiple installs and that community standards did not allow for >> putting archs onto names to allow multiple installs. We >> specifically removed the concept of PETSC_ARCH for installs for this >> reason. Have community standards changed? > > There is a big difference between having the install variant in the path
I have no idea what the sentence fragment above is suppose to mean. > (user has to manage paths themselves) and versioning libraries installed > to the same path. We can continue with using the prefix for everything > (which some distros will work around to avoid offloading path management > to the user) or we can allow multiple installs to a standard path (users > don't have to deal with paths, instead run petsc-3.5.0-dbg-config). I am not fundamentally objecting to name spacing the things installed but I previously understood that this was considered a big no-no. Barry
