On Jan 15, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Jed Brown <j...@jedbrown.org> wrote: > Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: >> To change this we would need to introduce a way of tracking >> alreadyprinted per class and per prefix instead of per object. It >> is unlikely we will change this. We recommend not using >> VecSetFromOptions() and MatSetFromOptions() in real applications > > We really have to do something about the repeated Vec and Mat help when > there is no prefix. This is by far the most important case.
Hmm, do we even want people calling VecSetFromOptions() and MatSetFromOptions()? Especially for more than 1 or 2 “master” items which will have different prefixes anyways. I don’t think we want calls to VecSetFromOptions() and MatSetFromOptions() from within other PETSc classes (except for possible a single master item) that is controlled from for example a DM. Barry
