<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:33 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"><span class="">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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>> Cray and others have admitted to doing this for as long as I've used<br>
>> PETSc. It's possible to discourage it without setting land mines.<br>
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> I guess my attitude is that most people using PETSc attempt to work<br>
> within the structures setup to use it. Cray people seem not to give a<br>
> fuck and just change stuff willy nilly until it works for them. Thats<br>
> fine. We can't stop them, but I am not motivated to enable them<br>
> either.<br>
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</span>I just don't see the value of RDict. It's read interface right now is<br>
grotesque (requires a lot of code and knowing a lot of almost magic<br>
names, thus it gets copy-pasted).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Criticism of the interface is fine. Rewrite it. No one will stop you.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I'd mainly prefer a nicer read<br>
interface, but if we redo the read interface, I'd rather it come from a<br>
human readable source. And less duplication is better.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>This is the truly strange thing. You are advocating communicating between</div><div class="gmail_extra">programs by text files. This is a bizarre, and I thought dead, opinion. I</div><div class="gmail_extra">would much rather have structured data, than unstructured text that we</div><div class="gmail_extra">parse each time we want to do something.</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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