itaps-parallel Two options from today's iMeshP phone conference

[Jason Kraftcheck]

Mark Beall wrote:
> 
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> 
>>
>>>
>>> I'd say that using the root set to mean both "no set" and "the set that
>>> contains everything" is confusing. In iMesh_loadMesh (and most other
>>> places I saw when I looked quickly) you can say that it means
>>> "everything in the instance", which is the same as the root set. However
>>> if there are places (now or in the future) where there is a meaningful
>>> difference between the two things, that usage could become problematic.
>>>
>>
>> How does it mean 'the set that contains everything' in the *load*Mesh
>> case?
> 
> Since the root set does contain everything and that's the set you're
> passing, thus you did add the entities into the set you passed in. Yes,
> the mesh entities get added to the root set anyhow, but it's at least a
> little consistent (although I do think that passing a NULL set here
> would be more clear).
> 

And how is this different than the createEnt case?

- jason