[petsc-dev] use of hardwired PetscPartitionShell in test examples

[Barry Smith]

> On Feb 10, 2017, at 11:24 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> No no no no no
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> DO NOT DO THIS.
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> As I said before, I am using particular partitions I want to test.
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> AND I carefully explained why I want SHELL. Read my mail again.
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>    Matt
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> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>   Matt,
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>    As far as I can see this is completely unneeded and makes the test examples cumbersome so I'm going to strip that stuff out of the test examples and just use
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> args: -petscpartitioner_type simple or random
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> for the tests. Still get determinist results without cumbersome code in the examples.
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> Okay, I am not opposed to this for the SNES and TS examples.
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> Do not do it for the Plex tests since they really do take the partition into account.

  Ok

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>   Matt
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>   Barry
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