Re: Why the hell did 'python' move?

["Matthew Knepley" <knepley@xxxxxxxxx>]

I do not remember mail about this or I would have complained. You talked
about moving other things. Python code nuder the 'python' directory makes
perfect sense to me. How the hell would I know what is in 'config'. Also,
not all of the python code is configuration code.

  Matt

On Dec 10, 2007 10:16 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     I sent email about a week ago and no one complained.
>
>     As someone downloads petsc-dev they see directories config and
> python;
> this make NO SENSE at all, how are they going to know that most of the
> configure
> stuff is in the python directory? If I did not know PETSc and
> downloaded it
> I would be so pissed at the utterly stupid naming that I would simply
> delete the
> whole package and not even consider using it. Directory names are not
> for the developer (a developer can remember anything so long as the
> work on the package long enough), directory names are for the causal
> user and it is important that they make sense.
>
>     Why does your finite element stuff care where the configuration
> code is stored???? At most you should have to change a couple little
> things.
>
>
>     Barry
>
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
> > How does 'config' make any more sense than 'python'. And this
> > break EVERYTHING I do with finite elements. This should have at
> > least been discussed on petsc-dev.
> >
> >  Matt
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
>
>



-- 
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