Setting options on matrices obtained from a DM

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Barry Smith<bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
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>> Barry Smith wrote:
>>
>    This is just a limitation of the current implementation due to the way
> the design evolved over time.
> There is nothing intrinsic to the abstract design of PETSc that prevents the
> type from being
> properly processed before the sizes are set.
>

I agree 100% with you.. the only issue are tons of code to review and fix :-(

>
>   This is really yucky API you propose here; that no sane person would
> propose except to work
> around a shortfall in the current implementation.
>

We could start fixing Vec, next go for Mat ...


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