On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

Then we would need to remove the support for [/path/libname[.so.1.0]:]functionname[()] where items in [] denote optional from PetscFunctionListFind() so no more

-ksp_type /Users/me/libmyksp.so:MyKSPCreate()

Instead people would need to load the library in one collective call and then call the functionlistfind.

But I guess that is ok, no body uses this anyways.

Shall we add PETSC_PLUGIN_PATH and -petsc_plugin list_of:directories:or_libs.so. This would require plugin authors to create registration routines for each shared library, but I think this makes for a better UI anyway.