[petsc-dev] every test example runs in a new directory with new test harness

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> > So I need to check in this checkpoint file in order to test reading it
> in,
> > and also the diffing? I am not sure I like that better.
> > Shouldn't we design our test system to do this simple thing, rather than
> > clutter our repository for all time?
>
> Shouldn't we do the stronger test that guarantees the file format does
> not silently change?
>

I don't think an undocumented format is as much of a consideration as
keeping
the repo clean.

   Matt

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