On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:08, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> First he made the reasonable suggestion of adding feature a, then since > that worked feature b, then why not c and d, by the time he got to q they > were draining in complexity, nobody understood the software anymore and > random things broke all the time. The concept of a package manager, while apparently lost on Apple, is well-established. These have a few functions: install upgrade rebuild* uninstall *If the package is binary-only, then "upgrade" is needed if the ABI of a dependency changes. If the package is built from source, then "rebuild" is needed in this case. PETSc --download-* provides only part of what a package manager does, but I contend that "if you want to do X, find and delete a magic file named hash(X), with poorly-documented hash() and run a command that does lots of other things too" is not a more robust system. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20110830/175aac44/attachment.html>
