It is unlikely we will ever be able to maintain full manual pages for Fortran for all routines. But yes, the current pages are C-centric.
Do you have any suggestions on what we could add to the current manual pages or how to format them etc that would make them better for Fortran users who are not used to C? A Fortran synopsis as well as the C one, or a single synopsis that is easier for both Fortran and C users to follow? Barry I am not sure it is trivial to automatically generate the Fortran synposis with appropriate use and include information but one could argue that we should. > On Dec 12, 2023, at 11:40 AM, Palmer, Bruce J via petsc-users > <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > Thanks! It might be useful if there were a link to this page near the top of > the C/Fortran API page. > > Bruce > > From: Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com <mailto:knep...@gmail.com>> > Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 8:33 AM > To: Palmer, Bruce J <bruce.pal...@pnnl.gov <mailto:bruce.pal...@pnnl.gov>> > Cc: petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> > <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov>> > Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Fortran Interface > > Check twice before you click! This email originated from outside PNNL. > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:27 AM Palmer, Bruce J via petsc-users > <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov>> wrote: > Does documentation for the PETSc fortran interface still exist? I looked at > the web pages for 3.20 (petsc.org/release <http://petsc.org/release>) but if > you go under the tab C/Fortran API, only descriptions for the C interface are > there. > > I think after the most recent changes, the interface was supposed to be very > close to C, so we just document the differences on specific pages, and put > the general stuff here: > > https://petsc.org/release/manual/fortran/ > > Thanks, > > Matt > > Bruce Palmer > > > -- > 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 > > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
