[petsc-dev] Promote DMDAGetCoordinateDA to DMGetCoordinateDM

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I don't mind the promotion in principle, but we should be careful what we
> mean by "coordinate DM". I don't want to assume a nodal basis, therefore
> the only way to "use" a coordinate DM (or coordinate vector) is by local
> evaluation which requires DM impl-specific code. If you are planning to
> write DM-generic code that assumes you can get a nodal coordinate for a
> given dof, then I have to object.


No, I just want DM to return a coordDM and a coordVec. They can mean
whatever the DM impl wants.

   Matt


> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Objections?
>>
>>    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
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