[petsc-dev] Opening XML performance log files in browsers

[Smith, Barry F.]

   Looks ok to me (I haven't tested it).  You could make a pull request.

   I was able to use the manual process on my Mac, with Safari, Firefox, and Chrome in the past.

   Barry


> On Jun 13, 2018, at 3:59 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Making it work with the official instructions is cumbersome and I
> could not mange to get it working. Running `python3 -m http.server` is
> far easier, but you still have to copy the XSL file to the working
> directory. So I got totally upset and wrote my own solution, because
> you know, complaints should come with new code or patches.
> 
> Anyone interested, please download and chmod +x the attached Python
> script (should run with either Py 2 or Py 3).
> 
> Any suggestions to improve it most welcome. Only tested on Mac with
> Homebrew Python 2 and 3 and Google Chrome. I'll test it tomorrow on
> Linux.
> 
> Barry, please tell me if this look good enough to add to PETSc under
> $PESTC_DIR/lib/petsc/bin
> 
> Note: This looks in $PETSC_DIR for the XSL file, if not found it is
> read and served on the fly from official git repo branch maint.
> 
> Note: The default port "0" in the code means that the OS will pick a
> random free port. Seems the right thing to do for this particular use
> case. Not sure how well this plays with firewalls.
> 
> $ ./petsc-performance-view
> usage: petsc-performance-view [-h] [-b ADDRESS] [-p PORT] LOGFILE
> petsc-performance-view: error: too few arguments
> 
> $ ./petsc-performance-view -h
> usage: petsc-performance-view [-h] [-b ADDRESS] [-p PORT] LOGFILE
> 
> Open a new browser window to visualize a PETSc XML log file.
> 
> positional arguments:
>  LOGFILE               PETSc XML log filename
> 
> optional arguments:
>  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
>  -b ADDRESS, --bind ADDRESS
>                        Specify bind address
>  -p PORT, --port PORT  Specify port
> 
> $ ./petsc-performance-view log.xml
> # should open browser with log.xml
> # and the script should exit immediately
> # to not seize your command line
> 
> 
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