<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 18:30, Dmitry Karpeev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karpeev@mcs.anl.gov">karpeev@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;">
<div id=":1iy"> If a user could write a<br>
simple foo.py that configured/built their<br>
favorite package with PETSc as a dependency, they could then proceed<br>
to modify the FOO code and jack<br>
PETSc into it.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>But this just a different form of asking them to adopt our build system, except that makefiles are a de-facto standard and our system won't be familiar to anyone. Any system has to be easily usable from other systems (at least makefiles, automake, and cmake).</div>