[petsc-users] How can PETSc configure with MSMPI

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> > BTW: We are still using this old MPICH2-1.4 on windows for PETSc
> > nightly builds [with antique MS compilers]
>
> How would we feel about another project bundling petsc-3.0 indefinitely?
>

I don't think this is apples-to-apples since there are later versions of
PETSc
that do everything the earlier versions do. This is a case of the developer
getting run over by a bus (or at least their courage) and us finding a way
to
keep the functionality.

   Matt


> "Feel free, but it's up to you to support it."
>
> I think we have to figure out something workable using supported
> packages.  We don't want to be in the business of maintaining/supporting
> antique versions of other libraries.
>



-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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