<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:37 PM Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org">jed@jedbrown.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 2:04 PM Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev <<br>
> <a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> You are right, these do not belong in petscconf.h<br>
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> The problematic thing here is hiding information from users of<br>
> PETSc. If you are a user that counts on PETSc configure to check<br>
> something, but then we hide it because we do not use it, I would not<br>
> be happy.<br>
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You want PETSc to test things that it doesn't use because maybe a user<br>
would want to know? Where does that end</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Very clearly it ends with testing the things users SPECIFICALLY ASKED US TO TEST</div><div>on the configure command line.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> and how would we ever know if<br>
the information is correct?<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>This is just nonsensical. We know its correct because we tested it.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><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.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>