<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:08 PM, 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">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> We'll be preparing another release in the next couple of months. It<br>
>> would be nice to transition more examples to the new test harness.<br>
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>> How can we organize this? My original plan was to try to do a<br>
>> test/tutorial directory at a time in a branch and move them through next.<br>
>> Can we start to do this or is there still something missing in the test<br>
>> harness?<br>
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> I want one more thing in the test harness, the ability to specify the<br>
> number of procs on the fly. I tried to do this myself, but<br>
> screwed it up. Can someone do it correctly?<br>
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Test output very often changes when you change the number of processes<br>
so the diff tests would often fail. What about just printing the exact<br>
command that would be run? Then you can change number of processes or<br>
other options without needing extra steps.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>This seems masochistic. I want to run a test with a different number of processes.</div><div class="gmail_extra">So my best option is print out the options, cut & paste that soewhere, alter it to</div><div class="gmail_extra">what I want, and run? Why would we have EXTRA_OPTIONS?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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