Why the hell did 'python' move?

[Barry Smith]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> I do not remember mail about this or I would have complained. You  
> talked
> about moving other things.

    It was an earlier mail

> Python code nuder the 'python' directory makes
> perfect sense to me. How the hell would I know what is in 'config'.  
> Also,
> not all of the python code is configuration code.

    If there was python code that was not configuration/build code then
I apologize about messing up that code. As far as I could see at that  
time
python had the config code plus some no longer used code for generating
python PETSc classes. I definitely believe all the config code should  
be in
the same directory with a name that indicates it is config. Putting
code in a directory named after the language it is written in makes
no sense to me, the directory name should indicate what the code/ 
directory
is FOR; so real people can get around the directory tree.

    Barry

>
>
>  Matt
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 10:16 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>    I sent email about a week ago and no one complained.
>>
>>    As someone downloads petsc-dev they see directories config and
>> python;
>> this make NO SENSE at all, how are they going to know that most of  
>> the
>> configure
>> stuff is in the python directory? If I did not know PETSc and
>> downloaded it
>> I would be so pissed at the utterly stupid naming that I would simply
>> delete the
>> whole package and not even consider using it. Directory names are not
>> for the developer (a developer can remember anything so long as the
>> work on the package long enough), directory names are for the causal
>> user and it is important that they make sense.
>>
>>    Why does your finite element stuff care where the configuration
>> code is stored???? At most you should have to change a couple little
>> things.
>>
>>
>>    Barry
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>>
>>> How does 'config' make any more sense than 'python'. And this
>>> break EVERYTHING I do with finite elements. This should have at
>>> least been discussed on petsc-dev.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> --
>>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
>>> their experiments lead.
>>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
> their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>