[petsc-dev] configure usability

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:

> 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.


We want them to be organized in certain ways, like sections for help. We
want to
do special processing for some types, like download. When I Iooked at these
packages, it did not seem east to do.

   Matt


>
> Jed
>



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