[petsc-dev] testing: with parmetis, without 64-bit, without complex

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:

>   a) Switch the nightlies from make to Python

Are you talking about compilation or running tests?  Compilation should
be irrelevant because all systems should produce the same result.  I
think testing is higher priority.

>   b) Change the categories to tags

Yeah, just can't do this within the current make-based running system.

>   c) Simply parse parts of the output for numerical comparison

It's useful to compare everything because otherwise, new clutter can
show up unintentionally and won't be caught by testing.