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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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.


Running and interpreting.

   Matt


> >   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.
>



-- 
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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