On Feb 17, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > 90 plus percent of PETSc users must view error messages as a “useless blob > of gunk that merely tells you an error has occurred”. How can we get them to > understand that they contain useful information? Better formatting? Color? > > There is a lot of ASCII noise around the message. Maybe we repeat the main > error message above with > nothing around it, and tell them to look below for more info? It is tricky to print the right information in the right place (like the stack). I like color but Jed and Satish frown on it. Barry > > Matt > > > 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
