[petsc-dev] reorganizing src/sys

[Jed Brown]

comm/pami was mine, but it can be removed because that code only works on
COMM_WORLD anyway (lame interfaces in the PAMI/MPI implementation)
On Dec 9, 2012 8:36 PM, "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    The src/sys directory is getting rather clogged with an odd collection
> of stuff in seemly randomly and bizarrely named directories with no
> hierarchy (yes Jed I know we don't need no stinky hierarchy, we only need
> tags but that won't help hz50241027 who has "No tags file").
>
> Barrys-MacBook-Pro:sys barrysmith$ pwd
> /Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc-dev/src/sys
> Barrys-MacBook-Pro:sys barrysmith$ ls
> adic          comm          error         f90-src       ftn-custom
>  makefile.html mpiuni        python        shell         totalview
> viewer
> ams           dll           examples      fileio        index.html
>  matlabengine  objects       random        threadcomm    utils         yaml
> bag           draw          f90-mod       fsrc          makefile
>  memory        plog          sf            time          verbose
>
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> I'd like to organize it with more structure, first putting all the
> "system" stuff that does NOT know about PetscObject (only depends on
> petscerror handling, info, and malloc, note does not depend on logging)
> together (truesys), all the stuff that defines the PetscObject model and
> logging together (petscobject), and all the stuff that builds higher level
> infrastructure on top of PetscObjects (topobjects). (names subject to
> improvement).
>
> The truesys is mostly wrappers for non-portable system routines, things
> like PetscSortInt() etc.
>
> topobjects includes viewer, random, draw, sf
>
> There is some weird stuff like shell?, comm/pami? other?  What are they?
> Who owns them? Should they be removed?
>
>   As with most changes in PETSc I'd like to do this quickly but
> evolutionarily, moving things around a bit at a time to get to the new form.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>    Barry
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