On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > I guess the argument is that on occasion in the future a certain number > of people will misinterpret the meaning of PETSC_ARCH frustrating them and > us; the number misinterpreting PETSC_CONF will be much smaller or zero > saving people's time and energy. > This will be far outweighed by the number of people complaining about such a change. I agree with them. Matt > Barry > > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > 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 >> > > -- 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/b548f1cb/attachment.html>