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

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 24, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>  Matt,
>> 
>>   src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex8.c   apparently went untested for a long while.
>> 
>>   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).
>> 
>>   It appears to be some ancient attempt at doing finite elements for a simple problem (yet uses MatSetValuesStencil?)
>> 
>>   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++).

  Done

> 
>   Matt
> 
>>   Barry
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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