[petsc-dev] Experimental GNU make build system

[Jed Brown]

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

>    I'd rather see all that crap disappear and be replaced with a portable* python system.
>
>    Barry
>
> *where portable means works on native windows.

The build part is trivially easy once BuildSystem is rewritten to work
on native Windows.