Interface changes?

[Tom Cortese]

Great -- thanks!

 	-Tom C.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Barry Smith wrote:

>
>  Tom,
>
>   The changes file is currently at 
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/changes/dev.html
> after the release it will be at 
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/changes/300.html
>
>  Barry
>
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> On Dec 12, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Tom Cortese wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> 
>> I can see from the recent flurry of activity that many people are working 
>> very diligently to get the next release of PETSc out of the door in the 
>> near future, and I will soon be installing this new release on several 
>> large unclassified machines at several DoD centers, and I am also expected 
>> to write at least a short blurb telling people how to use it (usually I 
>> just tellt them what $PETSC_DIR should be set to, and provide a description 
>> of several $PETSC_ARCH configurations, such as debugging or optimized, that 
>> I create for them).
>> 
>> While I can certainly wait for the release notes, I was wondering if the 
>> new PETSc contains actual interface changes (i.e., existing software that 
>> calls PETSc routines will not compile since some functions no longer exist, 
>> or they still exist but have a different number/type of arguments), or if 
>> the new release provides new 
>> functionality/stability/performance/bugfixes/routines/whatever but can 
>> still be linked with older code.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 	-Tom Cortese
>> 	PET Computational Environment Onsite
>> 
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