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[Patrick Farrell <patrick.farrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/04/13 15:06, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> The PETSc SNES solver tests were passing for PETSc 3.3 but failing
> for PETSc 3.2. The nonlinear solvers have been changing a lot
> between PETSc versions, so I would suggest disabling the PETSc
> nonlinear solvers for PETSc version < 3.3.  I have no interest in
> fixing things for PETSc 3.2.

When I added the PETScSNESSolver code, I worked rather hard to make sure
it worked with both PETSc 3.2 and 3.3. It's quite important to retain
both. In particular, there are no released versions of ubuntu or debian
that contain PETSc 3.3 packages. I think whoever broke it for 3.2 should
fix it.

Patrick