[Petsc-trilinos-discussion] Scope and requirements

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Bartlett, Roscoe A. <bartlettra at ornl.gov>wrote:

> I am not the one you have to convince.  If it is so easy to upgraded, why
> have the Hydra-TH developers not upgraded already?  Do you have a
> relationship with the Hydra-TH developers?


Our strategy for scalable development is not to have a relationship with
the people that use the software, other
than through petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov. I cannot find this package on Google,
other than mentioned in ORNL
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   Matt


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jed Brown [mailto:jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov]
> > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:30 AM
> > To: Bartlett, Roscoe A.; 'Barry Smith'
> > Cc: Matthew Knepley; petsc-trilinos-discussion at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: RE: [Petsc-trilinos-discussion] Scope and requirements
> >
> > "Bartlett, Roscoe A." <bartlettra at ornl.gov> writes:
> > > It is just that the current approach of Hydra-TH using a different
> > > version of PETSc and ML from the rest of the VERA components will not
> > > allow them to couple in with other VERA codes.
> >
> > Maintained software upgrades to follow the current version of its
> > libraries and environment.  We are not IBM or RedHat, and our customers
> > generally don't have the deep pockets required to offer full support for
> > ancient software versions.  Upgrading should involve few (possibly zero)
> > source code changes, and those should be simple.
>



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