[petsc-dev] define in petscconf PETSc is a development version?

[Jose E. Roman]

In petscversion.h there is PETSC_VERSION_RELEASE, which is 1 (release)  
or 0 (development).
Jose


On 07/01/2010, Toby D. Young wrote:

> Dear developers,
>
> I am a satisfied user of PETSc and SLEPc through the interfaces  
> provided
> by the deal.ii library. The problem I am trying to deal with is  
> related to
> changes in releases of PETSc that break the interfaces we have  
> (because
> for better or for worse the changes are not backward compatible).
>
> This is all fine, and generally I try to keep on top of the changes in
> releases of PETSc and keep the deal.ii nterfaces as up-to-date as
> possible. No complaints so far.
>
> Which brings me to the real problem at hand.
>
> Recently I am wanting to use the development version of PETSc (and  
> SLEPc)
> to take advantage of some of the newer features. Unfortunately the  
> way we
> identify the version of PETSc in deal.ii can not distinguish between a
> development version (which currently breaks the interface) and the  
> latest
> release, since the identifications are both PETSc-3.0.0.
>
> Rather than keep track of patch numbers, which is too much for me to
> maintain, it would be useful to have an identifier with the petsc- 
> dev that
> distinguishes the development version from releases. Then, when the
> development PETSc becomes a release it is relatively simple for me  
> to keep
> the deal.ii interfaces up-to-date (since I just convert our interfaces
> from the PETSc development version to a release version accordingly).
>
> I was thinking something like this in include/petscversion.h
> + #define PETSC_VERSION_DEV = 1
> for the development version and set this to 0 (or delete the line
> entirely) when this becomes the next release version of PETSc.  
> Sadly, this
> is the best solution I can come up with...
>
> Is something like this possible to add to petsc-dev? Perhaps there  
> is a
> better way to autodect that the PETSc version is in fact a development
> version?
>
> Can anyone suggest something to me please?
>
> Thanks.
> Best,
> 	Toby