[petsc-dev] Updating MOAB version during download

[Barry Smith]

On Jun 16, 2014, at 8:32 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>    Jed seems to be saying, "if you just want to use the package for
>>    compiling then use —download-xxx otherwise go through the manual
>>    process of getting the damn package yourself and go through all
>>    the manual steps”. I say that is silly since —download-xxx already
>>    exists and can do 95% of what is needed already I never want to go
>>    through the manual steps even if I am contributing to that other
>>    package.
> 
> Are you going to add the appropriate upstream workflow to all the
> --download packages?  This sounds intractable.

  I am not putting upstream workflow into any download packages. I am wanting to do something very simple, let —download-xxx replace me manually git clone xxxx; git checkout yyyy on some package. That is all. (Where yyy may be a branch or a commit-hash depending on the circumstances).

  Barry