[petsc-dev] Removal of PETSC_VIEWER_NATIVE?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> > This is something to think about. I believe the original intention here
> was
> > to
> > go along with our philosophy of subtyping. For example, if you call
> >
> >   KSPGMRESSetRestart()
> >
> > on KSPCR, it is just ignored. Likewise ASCII_INFO_DETAIL might just
> > give regular ASCII output if we have no specialization for it. This is
> > more of an open world assumption where we have an acceptable default
> > if we do not know about something.
>
> What about ASCII_MATLAB or ASCII_VTK?  Printing unstructured text to
> these structured formats is definitely broken.
>

I don't disagree, but should we go all the way to a closed model to fix
this, or
should we just pick out cases like this and catch them?

    Matt

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