On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Scott Kruger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 6/17/17 9:57 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > >> Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes: >> >> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: >>>> >>>> Thanks, sadly it is not helpful. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I wasn't saying it worked now, but that it was the target that should be >>>> used to print help. >>>> >>> >>> >>> <insert broken fingers message> >>> >> >> Barry's original message was addressed to Scott. I was merely pointing >> out a convention that is more discoverable than Barry's suggestion. I >> claim this was a constructive comment, not bikeshedding. Yes, I could >> make this change, but so could you, Barry, or anyone else. I don't >> think it's productive to lob the "broken fingers" criticism around. >> It's educational and likely more accurate for the person who wrote a >> component to maintain the docs for that component and the person making >> the suggestion might have the 30 seconds at that moment to make a >> constructive suggestion, but not the 10 minutes to implement it. >> >> where are the current docs for it that we move to this place? >>> >> >> gmakefile has this comment. >> >> # Tests can be generated by searching >> # Percent is a wildcard (only one allowed): >> # make -f gmakefile test search=sys%ex2 >> # To match internal substrings (matches *ex2*): >> # make -f gmakefile test searchin=ex2 >> # Search and searchin can be combined: >> # make -f gmakefile test search='sys%' searchin=ex2 >> # For args: >> # make -f gmakefile test argsearch=cuda >> # For general glob-style searching using python: >> # NOTE: uses shell which is possibly slower and is possibly more brittle >> # make -f gmakefile test pysearch='sys*ex2*' >> > > I'll also note that per request, there is documentation > in the developers latex manual. AFAICT, it's only use > has been to show that I can check off requests. I read it :) But of course, then I forgot where it was. Matt > > Scott > > > -- > Tech-X Corporation [email protected] > 5621 Arapahoe Ave, Suite A Phone: (720) 974-1841 > Boulder, CO 80303 Fax: (303) 448-7756 > -- 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 http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/
