[petsc-dev] Known outdated sections of the User's Manual?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm working on some groundwork to improve the PETSc documentation, and
> the next thing I'd like to look at is the User's Manual, adding
> slightly-prettier code listings (as in the update to the dev manual).
>
> Before doing that, however,  it would be very helpful to know if there
> are any sections of the manual which are known, by the relevant
> experts here, to require deletion or heavy rewrites; it would of
> course be a waste of time to format these.
>
> Specifically, I'm wondering about the following sections, which have
> in common that they are things concerned with friendly external tools.
> I've seen new users get very frustrated when they expect these sorts
> of things to "just work," so it's probably constructive to remove any
> outdated information here:
>
> - Chapter 11: Using MATLAB with PETSc . The support here has changed
> quite a lot, so I'm not sure what currently works. Is the MATLAB
> Compute Engine still supported?
>
> - Sections 15.10-15.14: Eclipse/Qt Creator/Developers Studio/XCode
> users. This is likely not all current. Is this information helpful
> here?
>
> - Section 15.15 : Graphics. I saw that there were some updates to the
> drawing tools recently by Lisandro, so if any of this material is
> known to be out of date, that would be helpful to know.
>

I think graphics is not so much out of date now as incomplete. We really
want
to be telling people to do things the modern way, but the old ways still
work.

   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
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