[petsc-dev] [petsc4py] PETSc.Viewer().createHDF5 wipes out existing files

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 9 September 2010 19:24, Dmitry Karpeev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> It seems to me that a nondestructive default would be better.
> I guess there is an expectation that users open viewers to write to
> more than to read from,
> but I think we still don't want to wipe out their files without an
> explicit authorization.
> Dmitry.

While I agree with both of you,  changing this makes me a bit nervous
because of the backward compatibility implications...


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