[petsc-dev] automatically updated git sample repositories

[Barry Smith]

On 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   always failed with dead unmaintained outdated code.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.

   NO NO NO you misunderstand. The mini repositories would have mirrored source code but NOT mirrored makefiles, they would have simple 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?

  Not in maint they won't