[petsc-dev] PetscUse/TryMethod

[Barry Smith]

   To use the latest version of PETSc, each user needs to remove the error checks on these calls. The resulting code will work with previous versions of PETSc as well as the current version of PETSc.  PETSc has never promised complete backward compatibility in the sense of promising that one can use new PETSc releases without any changes to their code; the documentation has always stated new releases will contain changes in the API. We began using depreciate a few years ago to limit the number of changes that needed to be made immediately for each release but depreciate is not suitable for all changes and so users do need to make some changes for each new release. 

   



> On Apr 3, 2022, at 7:23 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The recent PetscUse/TryMethod changes are backward incompatible. Third-party codes cannot compile without modification. Our users deserve better.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lisandro Dalcin
> ============
> Senior Research Scientist
> Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC)
> King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
> http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/ <http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/>

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