[petsc-dev] petsc release soon

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 13:57, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 3. Move all private headers from include/private/ to include/petsc/
>> (convention adopted by hundreds of packages) or include/petsc-private/
>> (like Tk).
>>
>>   I prefer petsc-private because if one installs in the xxxx/petsc/  you
>> get this stupid looking  xxxx/petsc/include/petsc.   Better
>> xxxx/petsc/include/petsc-private
>
>
> 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.
>

Don't any of you look at /usr/include? Hundreds of packages put one (or a
small number) public header at $prefix/include/package.h and place all
their private headers in $prefix/include/package/*.h.
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