[petsc-dev] -snes_check_jacobian

[Jed Brown]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>   I suggest
>
>     -snes_check_jacobian_view <ascii,draw,binary,…>
>
> then MatView is just called on the appropriate viewer instead of ugly
> variant options like snes_check_jacobian_draw etc
>
>     In fact this paradigm could be used many places, for example -mat_view
> -mat_view_socket -mat_view_binary -mat_view_draw   could be simplified to
> -mat_view <viewertype>
>

It would be nice if these could include a file name so that "binaryoutput"
doesn't get swamped with everything. How about "-mat_view
binary:filename.dat"?


>
>    Barry
>
> We'll write a utility routine that when given a viewer type returns the
> appropriate canonical form.
>
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