[petsc-dev] [petsc-maint #80119] Re: make install broken on unix?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 25 July 2011 19:33, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:16, Ethan Coon <ecoon at lanl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> It's not really a stand-alone script though, so it shouldn't get the
>> hashbang or lose the extension.  But it's not a full-fledged package of
>> libraries either.  I don't think it should be anywhere in the default path
>> -- it's the kind of code that you should have to explicitly include (either
>> via sys.path manipulation or via PYTHONPATH) because too many little scripts
>> of utility code makes for a nasty, polluted namespace.  There just isn't a
>> good place (that I know of) in the standard file system hierarchy for this
>> kind of stuff.
>
> Making the user/scripts do manual sys.path or PYTHONPATH manipulation makes
> it nearly impossible to make portable scripts that depend on these
> functions. Should we start a "proper" Python package containing PETSc
> utilities? Then scripts could rely on
> from petsc.io import binary_read
> or whatever working. Of course it might only contain two functions right
> now, but I could add my "petscplot" (makes various types of convergence and
> scaling plots from convergence monitors and -log_summary output), and I'm
> sure the community has other useful scripts.

Note however that "petsc" package is already registered in PyPI to
make "pip install petsc4py" download and install PETSc.


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