[petsc-dev] Sean is going to love this

[Barry Smith]

> On Dec 23, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> writes:
>> That's entirely up to you of where to put it. Jed, I'm sure, can advise
>> on which files in 'conf' to put into etc, var, or share.
> 
> I would actually prefer to create a bin/petsc-config that can be used to
> query everything about the configuration.  The location of its data
> files would not be part of the public interface.

  Sure, but they have to go into a "legal" location. Where would that legal location be? We'd start by putting the data as is in the legal location, then add a bin/petsc-config to process that data (crudely) then refine both the storage of the data and the bin/petsc-config over time.


  Barry