[petsc-dev] Updating MOAB version during download

[Jed Brown]

Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>> git submodule is similar, but it would be crazy to add every optional
>> external dependency as a submodule to petsc.git.
>
> [I was thinking in terms of collabortive development petsc+moab - and
> not 'package-management' for users.]
>
> So currently its 2 repos - in the future it could be more.

There are lots of external repositories.  I don't see anything special
about MOAB.  It's never going to be a required dependency.

> with submodule 'git commit' would probably automatically track the
> hashes between repos. But with configure:giturl - this has to be
> manually added to moab.py. Not a big deal..
>
> [we would also have to fixup configure:giturl to do 'git fetch; git
> checkout commit-id' for each configure run..]

Right, but at least it's clear what is needed.
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