<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org">jed@jedbrown.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
>> > 1) The python2 requirement is easily changed<br>
>><br>
>> Not so easily without compromising python2.4 compatibility.<br>
>><br>
>> > 2) You could compress it all into one line. I wanted to show what was<br>
>> > happening.<br>
>><br>
>> Still complicated (many interfaces).<br>
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> 2<br>
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</div>2 would be<br>
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import petsc.conf<br>
print(petsc.conf('64-bit-indices')</blockquote><div> </div><div>That is 1 interface</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
> I pray in 5 years our interface is not UNIX piping and grepping. We<br>
> have finally eliminated most of the horrible shell that was in our<br>
> makefiles. I hope we do not go backwards.<br>
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</div>Then make something better.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>According to who?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></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
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