I see the point, but this is one of the oldest parts of PETSc, and I am hesitant to change one arbitrary name to another without a more convincing reason.
Matt On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > Lisandro has pointed out to me several times that the variable name > PETSC_ARCH can be confusing; some people may think it is related to the > architecture of the machine and don't understand that it is an arbitrary > name that the user can make up. He suggested changing it to PETSC_CONF to be > clearer. > > Should we change it? Use something else? > > Barry > > -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20091130/bb928fec/attachment.html>