[petsc-dev] parmetis broken (with 64 bit indices)?

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:19 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 00:34, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>  Hmm, why? I believe the decision was that those dependent packages where told to fix themselves to use the latest ParMetis and until then they are not usuable from PETSc. Are we going to fix SuperLU_Dist, UMFPACK, MUMPS, etc etc. all ourselves to work with the latest Parmetis. That is a downstream?/upstream? problem not ours.
> 
> I agree, but perhaps we should (oh my!) support both versions for a bit.

  Very amusing joke,  you have such a wild sense of humor to even consider such absurdity  :-)

   Barry