[petsc-users] Fortran Interface

[Sanjay Govindjee]

I agree with Bruce that having a link to 
https://petsc.org/release/manual/fortran/ at the top of the C/Fortran 
API page (https://petsc.org/release/manualpages/) would be helpful.   
The C descriptions themselves are 98% of the way there for Fortran users 
(like myself).  The only time that more information would be help on the 
manual pages themselves is when there
is a strong variance between the C and Fortran usage, but that can not 
be easily automated.

-sanjay

On 12/12/23 9:07 AM, Barry Smith wrote:
>
>   It is unlikely we will ever be able to maintain full manual pages 
> for Fortran for all routines. But yes, the current pages are C-centric.
>
>   Do you have any suggestions on what we could add to the current 
> manual pages or how to format them etc that would make them better for 
> Fortran users who are not used to C?  A Fortran synopsis as well as 
> the C one, or a single synopsis that is easier for both Fortran and C 
> users to follow?
>
>   Barry
>
> I am not sure it is trivial to automatically generate the Fortran 
> synposis with appropriate use and include information but one could 
> argue that we should.
>
>
>
>> On Dec 12, 2023, at 11:40 AM, Palmer, Bruce J via petsc-users 
>> <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks! It might be useful if there were a link to this page near the 
>> top of the C/Fortran API page.
>> Bruce
>>
>> *From:*Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
>> *Date:*Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 8:33 AM
>> *To:*Palmer, Bruce J <Bruce.Palmer at pnnl.gov>
>> *Cc:*petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov<petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
>> *Subject:*Re: [petsc-users] Fortran Interface
>>
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>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:27 AM Palmer, Bruce J via petsc-users 
>> <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>     Does documentation for the PETSc fortran interface still exist? I
>>     looked at the web pages for 3.20 (petsc.org/release
>>     <http://petsc.org/release>) but if you go under the tab C/Fortran
>>     API, only descriptions for the C interface are there.
>>
>> I think after the most recent changes, the interface was supposed to 
>> be very close to C, so we just document the differences on specific 
>> pages, and put the general stuff here:
>> https://petsc.org/release/manual/fortran/
>>    Thanks,
>>      Matt
>>
>>     Bruce Palmer
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ 
>> <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
>
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