On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@59a2.org">jed@59a2.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 4 May 2010 11:21:25 -0500, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Each configure test is a Python module. The modules are organized in a<br>
> DB. You can request a module using its full name. When you get the<br>
> module reference you can query all of its attributes. For instance,<br>
><br>
> config.PETSc.utilities.scalarTypes has attribute "scalartype" which<br>
> can be "real" or "complex"<br>
><br>
> Same for 3rd party packages, which all inherit from<br>
> config.package.Package.<br>
<br>
</div>I wasn't asking how these values were set. Looking at the source, I see<br>
that checkDir() parses the makefiles and processes lines starting with<br>
#requires.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see. Yes, it currently uses the makefile organization. This is the kind of metadata</div><div>that Barry would like in a DB rather than in makefiles.</div><div><br></div><div>
Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font color="#888888"><br>
Jed</font></blockquote></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener<br>