[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #119133] petsc-dev configure crash

[Barry Smith]

On Jun 6, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> One of the concerns we discussed earlier is the additional
> requirement: 'subrepo' usage should be same/similar to 'single repo'
> usage. This clearly is not possible with (A). [we have to buy into the
> sub-repo model and use it appropriately].
> 
> i.e be aware which commands work with subrepos by default - and which
> ones need '-s' for subrepo
> 
> I think most users only need to pull and update which will do the right thing with subrepo.
>  
> - and then be aware that buildsystem you
> pull is not the latest [only the latest commited to petsc-dev] etc.
> 
> This is the right model anyway. If a BuildSystem patch is required by petsc-dev, there should be a commit in the petsc-dev repo stating that.. 

   But this is not going to happen. If Matt fixes something in BuildSystem (for some reason not specific to something in petsc-dev he is working on) he will not doing it petsc-dev he will do it in BuildSystem.    

    Basically you are asking Matt to do all his work in a very unnatural way because you chose to put BuildSystem into petsc-dev; this won't happen people instinctively violate unnatural ways of doing things.

  Barry