<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:13 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>
> 1) The python2 requirement is easily changed<br>
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</div>Not so easily without compromising python2.4 compatibility.<br>
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> 2) You could compress it all into one line. I wanted to show what was<br>
> happening.<br>
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</div>Still complicated (many interfaces).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>2</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
> 3) It much more flexible, namespaced, and does not involve output files<br>
> which may change.<br>
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</div>We can look back in 5 years and see which one works unmodified. I<br>
suspect that petscconf.h is more stable than all those Python<br>
interfaces.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I pray in 5 years our interface is not UNIX piping and grepping. We have finally</div><div class="gmail_extra">eliminated most of the horrible shell that was in our makefiles. I hope we do</div><div class="gmail_extra">
not go backwards.</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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