[petsc-dev] reproducibility

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    With -citations, or in addition to it, we should have some flag that
> causes the print out of the unique version information for each package
> used in a computation. Since computations are often done "between" version
> releases or with "randomly" patched releases how can we capture that
> information?


I think getting version information from other packages is pretty worthless
(how many times has SuperLU
had a shadow release). However, for all the packages that we control, we
can get the SHA1 very simply.
So a list of SHA1s for all packages would be meaningful.

   Matt


>
>     Barry
>
>


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