[petsc-dev] hdf5.py is messed up

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:06, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I do not see that being in any way superior, and my way allows us to pull
> > directly from the HDF5 site.
> >
> 
> Keeping a repo allows us to version patches. With a repository, you can
> always generate a single complete patch against the upstream release
> version. 


> It's not clear to me that rolling our own tarball is better or
> worse than patching from upstream.

Rolling our own tarball should be an intermediate solution until the
issue gets fixed in the upstream traball.. [we should send
patches/bugreports to upstream. sometimes were are lazy wrt this..]

Satish