[petsc-dev] Matt: what do to with src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex8.c ?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>   Matt,
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>    src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex8.c   apparently went untested for a long while.
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>    Recently I added it to the nightly tests. It does not work because it improperly did not call MatAssemblyBegin/End() collectively (in trying to do boundary conditions).
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>    It appears to be some ancient attempt at doing finite elements for a simple problem (yet uses MatSetValuesStencil?)
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>    It needs to be fixed up or completely removed from the source code?   I say just remove it all. What do you think?

Yes, remove it. We are going to do a different version with the
support today (DM + Section/IS++).

   Matt

>    Barry
>



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