On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[email protected]> writes: > > The section "Options for SEQAIJ matrix" is repeated. The reason I ask is > > because I have another Petsc program that prints an enormous amount of > > duplicate lines when running with -help. I found this old thread from > > 2006 about the same problem: > > > > http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2006-October/000737.html > > Sadly, this is still a known problem and it got worse when we became > more consistent about printing options for things like matrices and > vectors (which rarely have prefixes and for which many options used to > be hidden). Fixing it is somewhat at odds with our desire to remove > global variables whenever possible, but I think it needs to be fixed. I > tend to filter -help output with grep, FWIW. > What will we use to uniquely identify a block of options? I hate the idea of a random string. Its too easy to mess up. Should we use a class+type_name? Matt -- 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
