[petsc-dev] Updating MOAB version during download

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Jun 16 13:43:02 CDT 2014


On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Jed Brown wrote:

> >    I propose we stop making PETSc snapshots and instead people who
> >    want to work with the development version can use git. If people
> >    have machines they want to use petsc-dev on but they don’t have git
> >    on that machine that is their problem, not ours.
> 
> Bitbucket provides tarball downloads of any version (commit, tag, or
> branch).  People can download those if for some reason they can't use
> Git.  I don't think we need to hold their hand to do that.

This is one of the bullets I mentiond for future changes to giturl.
But this tarball not equivalent to release tarball [as it might not
have some of the buildtools prebuilt into the tarball - so has extra
requirements - similar to git-clone]

Satish


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