[petsc-dev] automatically updated git sample repositories

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> >    I’ve tried several times over the years to have a “higher quality”
> >    examples elsewhere then the usual subdirectory spots and it has
> >    always failed with dead unmaintained outdated code. Can we have
> >    links in git (and the tar ball) from the examples to to this
> >    “special directory”.
>
> I proposed putting them in a different place because we don't want those
> big makefiles.  In fact, I would rather assume that GNU make works so
> that we can have auto-dependencies and stuff (i.e., so the examples can
> grow to multiple files in a graceful manner).
>
> >    We need to have both structured and unstructured (plex) examples
> >    for each. Why is that confusing?
>
> Because the unstructured examples would change every day?
>

They are not that unstable. The Plex interface used in example has not
changed
in at least a year, and the core interface is years old. The new parts of
unstructured
examples are mostly discretization stuff which could also be used in
structured
examples if people cared enough.

   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
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