[petsc-dev] circular dependencies SLEPc

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:45 PM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> You can implement and register a PC in SLEPc (it would go in
> libslepc.so).
> >>
> >
> > I think this is the bad workflow solution. What Barry suggested will work
> > and be MUCH easier for a developer. Isn't
> > the point of our tools to make our lives easier, not to enforce rules
> that
> > make them harder?
>
> Circular dependencies with a special build process is an enormous
> development and distribution tax.
>

The difference in the arguments here is that there are very specific
problems with the "right" way,
namely that I need to deal with two different repos, two testing systems,
release schedules, etc.
Whereas the taxes above are currently theoretical.

   Matt

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