[petsc-dev] please do not replicate PETSc object options in examples

[Jed Brown]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>   Also don't provide monitors that exactly duplicate built in monitors;
> for example several examples had -drawcontours that identically duplicated
> -ts_monitor_solution
>
>   It is fine to put in unique monitors specific for the problem that are
> not the same as producible with a command line option.
>

There should be at least one monitor somewhere to point people to as an
example. There is a PCSHELL example that just does Jacobi, presumably
because an example of a truly custom preconditioner was considered advanced.
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