[petsc-dev] Registration implicitly collective on COMM_WORLD

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 17, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Then we would need to remove the support for  [/path/libname[.so.1.0]:]functionname[()] where items in [] denote optional  from PetscFunctionListFind() so no more
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> -ksp_type /Users/me/libmyksp.so:MyKSPCreate()
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> Instead people would need to load the library in one collective call and then call the functionlistfind.
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> But I guess that is ok, no body uses this anyways.
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> Shall we add PETSC_PLUGIN_PATH and -petsc_plugin list_of:directories:or_libs.so. This would require plugin authors to create registration routines for each shared library, but I think this makes for a better UI anyway.

  It is ok with me.