[petsc-dev] I hate Mecurial

[Barry Smith]

On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 13:50, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> This is still much too terse. For each of these messages there should be listed a hyper link pointing to comprehensive details on how to proceed. PETSc should have this as well.
> 
>    In fact rather than having error numbers in PETSc's PetscError/SETERRQ() we should have hyperlinks or maybe both.
> 
> Callers occasionally want to be able to check for certain classes of errors.

    With modern programming languages string processing is just as easy as processing integer codes and offers more flexibility. However since we are using C I guess we stick to integers :-)

    BTW: some of the PetscErrorStrings[] have hyperlinks in them.

    Barry

> Translating error codes into a hyperlink to further related info would be good.