On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, 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 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:02:18 +0200, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@59a2.org">jed@59a2.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:39:40 +0300, Aron Ahmadia <<a href="mailto:aron.ahmadia@kaust.edu.sa">aron.ahmadia@kaust.edu.sa</a>><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> > > cgparse/optparse do what I need.<br>
> ><br>
> > argparse is a nice improvement, but not in the standard lib prior to<br>
> > 2.7/3.2. It's not clear to me why PETSc couldn't just use optparse (in<br>
> > standard lib from 2.3).<br>
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> It can't. We investigated it before.<br>
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</div>Do you recall the reason why? I don't think it's ever been on petsc-dev.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>We want them to be organized in certain ways, like sections for help. We want to</div><div>do special processing for some types, like download. When I Iooked at these</div>
<div>packages, it did not seem east to do.</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<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <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>