[petsc-dev] instead of generating a bad fortran stub why don't we have sowing barf on functions with character strings

[Barry Smith]

> On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:54 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
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> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>  It is absurd that we get into this situation with a bad fortran stub due to strings. Sowing should just barf on them not generate a bad stub and then waste everyone's time!
> 
> I'd say we'd be better off making sowing handle character strings correctly.

  Don't let perfection stop us from at least doing a stop gap measure that saves us time and frustration.