hey Aron, Is there a good (preferably non-fink) version of sshfs/fuse for mac? I saw a few options... MacFuse, http://www.pqrs.org/tekezo/macosx/sshfs/
etc any thoughts? ethan On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:27 -0400, Aron Ahmadia wrote: > Can the namespace issue be fixed with some macro magic? > > #ifdef UNIQUE_PETSC_NAMESPACE > #define Mat PetscMat > #endif > > ... > ... > > #undef Mat > > This seems like it would satisfy both parties, and a compiler/build > flag could uniqueify the namespace if needed. > > ~A > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > > > > > > There are two significant changes I'd like to see before the > > > next PETSc release: > > > > > > 1) remove the overly complicated (from a user perspective) matrix > > > subclassing for the various external > > > matrix solver packages and replace with MatSolverSetType() - > > > mat_solver_type <type> that simply > > > flips the various factorization/solver functions with those > > > requested and > > > > This seems not too hard. Just a layer on top to run the code a user must > > run now. > > > > > > > 2) properly name-space PETSc by putting a Petsc in front of all PETSc > > > objects, function names etc > > > (this will require changing a few names also to keep them below > > > the 32 character limit). This will > > > be very painful change for some users who are not comfortable > > > ever changing code, hence I hesitate > > > to do it, but it is the right thing to do and should have been > > > done originally. > > > > I guess I still do not see the need for this. NIMROD is a not a sufficient > > driver in my mind. If we really want namespaces, use a real language that > > has namespaces. There are plenty. If we are still using C, I say we stick > > with the old division. The imposition of this much pain on the overwhelming > > majority of users seems unjustified. > > > > Namespaces issues can be trivially fixed in say C++, which we should do. > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > Maybe we can do a release in around a couple of months, it would > > > be 2.4 > > > > > > 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 > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------- Ethan Coon DOE CSGF - Graduate Student Dept. Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics Columbia University 212-854-0415 http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ecoon/ -------------------------------------------
