On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Arne Morten Kvarving < [email protected]> wrote:
> > No, some things are actually better than other things. This is why its > engineering and not art appreciation. > > let me rephrase that. it depends on your position. i'm sure you have > sound, technical reasons for reinventing the wheel. but from a user's point > of view that sucks, because now i have to learn how to operate (or more > relevant; change) a new wheel. with cmake or automake, it is (well, > ideally) learn once, apply everywhere. with custom solutions, you get to > spend time learning stuff all over again, stuff which cannot be reapplied > elsewhere. > > ref the thing here that happened with my misunderstanding of the purpose > of that config file. whenever i see a <Package>Config.cmake it is the cmake > config mode file for <Package>. it did not occur to me that it could be > anything else, because i have never seen it be anything else in any other > pieces of software. > Yes, we need to change the name of that. Its very confusing and no longer used. We tried very hard to use CMake, but it was woefully inadequate. We wrote a long and detailed analysis of the shortcomings, posted it to the PETSc list, and set it to the developers. Nothing has been fixed, and thus we have moved on. Matt > not trying to pick a fight. just clarifying what i meant. > -- 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
