On Sep 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>   Matt,
> 
>     Every freaking time I add a package to BuildSystem/config/packages and 
> forget to list it in config/BuildSystem/config/packages/__init__.py
> hours are wasting when “things just don’t work”. Can you please please get 
> rid of the need to duplicately list things in that file when by any logic 
> they can all be found in that directory?
> 
> Right now, that is how we discover the packages. I can change it to 
> discovering everything in the directory. I thought people did not like that.

   I like it.

   Note that PETSc/packages/__init__.py does not have a list of the files and 
still works.

  Barry

> 
>    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

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