[petsc-dev] please please please can we get rid of config/BuildSystem/config/packages/__init__.py

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >   Matt,
> >
> >     Every freaking time I add a package to BuildSystem/config/packages
> and forget to list it in config/BuildSystem/config/packages/__init__.py
> > hours are wasting when “things just don’t work”. Can you please please
> get rid of the need to duplicately list things in that file when by any
> logic they can all be found in that directory?
> >
> > Right now, that is how we discover the packages. I can change it to
> discovering everything in the directory. I thought people did not like that.
>
>    I like it.
>
>    Note that PETSc/packages/__init__.py does not have a list of the files
> and still works.


Pushed the fix to next.

  Matt


>
>   Barry
>
> >
> >    Matt
> >
> > --
> > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> > -- Norbert Wiener
>
>


-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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