[petsc-dev] petsc release soon

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I agree that petsc/include/petsc is stupid. I see no reason to change the
>> perfectly logical include/private just to match what
>> some idiot programmers did.
>>
>
> Huh? So, if I install petsc with a --prefix, and (god-forbid!) some other
> project also has a 'private' directory, then there's now a conflict. Jed
> isn't just pulling this convention out of his ass here.
>

I am labeling installing into a single directory hopelessly stupid. That is
why we invented directories, so that filenames
need not hold all namespace information. The Linux idiots seem to have
forgotten this.

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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