[petsc-dev] Reminder: *every* symbol with extern linkage *must* be namespaced

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 16:04, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  It should be done as a --download-tetgen
>>>
>>>  I don't want that --with-gnu-copyright approach reintroduced.
>>
>>
>> 1) I already fixed these symbols hours ago. Pull your fucking repository.
>>
>> 2) Turn it on with a download option. I don't give a shit.
>>
>
> This has nothing to do with namespaces, it has to do with software
> licenses. You just included a bunch of source that has a license which is
> far more restrictive than the PETSc license. You can't do that (while
> keeping the PETSc license) without making its use optional. Barry wants
> that done via an external package instead of an option within the PETSc
> source tree.
>

It does not fucking matter whether its there to begin with or you download
it into the tree with HTTP, and since I
am maintaining it, I want it there to begin with.

   Matt

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