[petsc-users] -pc_factor_mat_solver_package wish_list

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 7, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>    Ok, so you are suggesting the same functions/options database as today except that : separated strings for alternatives?
> 
> Yes
>  
> 
>     Note that PetscFListGetPathAndFunction() which is used by all the checkers handles the form [/path/libname[.so.1.0]:]functionname[()] so : is already reserved. I would suggest | but the damn shell would require always protecting the arguments with "".
> 
> Maybe comma since semicolon is also taken. Pipe isn't that bad because usually people would be using this notation from an options file.

  I thought of comma, but comma is used for arguments to PetscOptionsGetXXXArray() so I don't like the reuse in a slightly different way

   I can live with pipe and forcing the quotes; 

   Barry