[MOAB-dev] Tag Heaers not installed?

[Timothy Tautges]

I think that's guaranteed to be sizeof (EntityHandle); there's also a cpp
variable for that, but can't recall the name.
On Aug 4, 2015 6:56 PM, "Anthony Scopatz" <scopatz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> The problem is that right now Tag is forward declared as either
>
> typedef TagInfo* Tag; // or
> typedef struct TagInfo* Tag;
>
> However, the Core::tag_get_handle() member function takes a Tag& as one of
> its output arguments.  To handle this - even in an opaque way - we need to
> know the sizeof(TagInfo) so that we can malloc() enough space for it.
>
> If there is another way to get the size of TagInfo or to get a pointer to
> a new TagInfo instance through the public interface, please let us know!
> Including this header file, though, also lets us have a more direct
> interface to Tags themselves, which I argue is more pythonic.
>
> Be Well
> Anthony
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:22 PM Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Patrick,
>>
>> Almost all of the queries on a Tag can be directed through the
>> Interface APIs. Is there something that you need from the Python layer
>> that is not exposed through Interface ? What is the specific use case
>> that requires access to TagInfo.hpp ?
>>
>> Vijay
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Timothy Tautges
>> <timothy.tautges at cd-adapco.com> wrote:
>> > Those details aren't meant to be visible across the API.
>> >
>> > On Aug 4, 2015 2:34 PM, "Patrick Shriwise" <shriwise at wisc.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Anthony and I are down here at NCSA working on a python interface to
>> some
>> >> of MOAB's more basic functionality for use in yt. We're currently
>> wrapping a
>> >> bunch of the MOAB classes/functions but we're wondering why arent the
>> >> TagInfo.hpp and related files aren't included in the install?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Patrick
>>
>
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