[petsc-dev] worthless information

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:29, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I still despise MPI compiler wrappers, their existence demonstrates the
> shear computing incompetence of most people doing HPC.


And totally inadequate configuration systems provided by everyone who tries.
It feels like too much work to write a cross-platform configuration and
build system for "simple" projects. Most projects start with one file and
autotools/CMake/SCons/BuildSystem feel heavy, unfamiliar, and overkill.
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