[petsc-dev] removing sieve

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Sat May 11 20:17:51 CDT 2013


Matt and I just talked offline. We'll leave it in for the release, but
remove it from master. So it will be in 3.4.x (deprecated), but not in
'master' and gone in 3.5.
On May 11, 2013 7:57 PM, "Blaise A Bourdin" <bourdin at lsu.edu> wrote:

> Can we keep it in 3.4 with a warning? I have a lot more work to do before
> I can switch to dmplex.
>
> Blaise
>
> On May 11, 2013, at 6:18 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov>
>  wrote:
>
> > Matt, I take it that you intend for this removal to be merged for
> > petsc-3.4 so that users are not distracted by something we aren't
> > supporting.  An alternative would be to add a #warning to petscdmmesh.h.
> >
> > If we are deleting it from petsc-3.4, there are a few files that can
> > have more stuff deleted:
> >
> > $ git grep -l 'ALE::'
> > bin/processSummary.py
> > config/PETSc/FEM.py
> > src/dm/impls/plex/plexfem.c
> > src/docs/doxygen/Doxyfile
> > src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex72.c
> >
> >
> > We can delete the sieve-dev mailing list and reference to it.
> >
> > src/docs/website/miscellaneous/mailing-lists.html:          <td>: For
> Sieve users</td>
> >
> >
> > Update the FAQ to recommend DMPlex.
> >
> > src/docs/website/documentation/faq.html:          use the Sieve
> construct in PETSc, this is a high
> >
> > Remove src/docs/tex/manual/sieve.tex
> >
> >
> > Sieve is also referenced from src/docs/strategy.tex, which is an
> > outdated personal fragment that should probably also be deleted.
> >
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