<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 22:07, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Why do you care if there are dependencies? Admittedly that may make PETSc harder to develop and maintain</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Exactly.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
but from the user point of view what is wrong with just having one big-assed blob?</blockquote></div><br><div>It doesn't matter for users.</div><div><br></div><div>(But a circular dependency would make executables grow so its existence might matter to someone using only Mat+Vec in an extremely low-memory environment.)</div>