[petsc-dev] elemental stuff still broken

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> On Dec 20, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>> 
>>>  Since Jack has fixed these issues why is this still broken in
>>>  nightly tests of next?
>> 
>> He fixed the issues in his repository, but we never told PETSc to use
>> his new version.
>
>    Should we be using his repository? Should we be figuring out better
>    ways of handling updates to other software from our stuff? It is
>    not productive to have this kind of stuff happen, how can we
>    prevent it in the future?

When he updates, we should be making a one-line commit in
config/PETSc/packages/elemental.py to use his new version.  It's not
hard, but someone has to do it.  I'm about to step onto a plane, but I
can do it when I land.

I don't want to "automatically" use the most recent version because then
PETSc builds will break when he uses a new language feature or changes
an interface, and we won't be able to reliably rewind to an old state.
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