[petsc-dev] automatically updated git sample repositories

[Barry Smith]

On May 22, 2014, at 10:33 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>   You don’t see it therefor it doesn’t exist. I don’t see germs,
>>   therefor I can never get sick.
> 
> Do you have a technical reason why examples using a common makefile in
> petsc.git, but mirrored to a different repository with a simple makefile
> will be easier to maintain than examples in their own directory with a
> simple makefile in petsc.git?

   The examples will be in the same place they have always been. The only thing that can go wrong is the simple makefile, since it is simple that is unlikely. Plus they will be different makefiles for only a short time. 

   Your plan introduces a new place for examples, a place that has always failed in the past. Yes this does not prove it will fail next time but I do expect the sun to rise tomorrow.