[petsc-dev] configure usability

[Jed Brown]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:02:18 +0200, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:39:40 +0300, Aron Ahmadia <aron.ahmadia at kaust.edu.sa>
> > wrote:
> > > cgparse/optparse do what I need.
> >
> > argparse is a nice improvement, but not in the standard lib prior to
> > 2.7/3.2.  It's not clear to me why PETSc couldn't just use optparse (in
> > standard lib from 2.3).
> 
> 
> It can't. We investigated it before.

Do you recall the reason why?  I don't think it's ever been on petsc-dev.

Jed