[petsc-dev] DMDA_*PERIODIC and DMDA_XYZGHOSTED

[Barry Smith]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> On 10 March 2011 20:57, Ethan Coon <ecoon at lanl.gov> wrote:
>> Attached patch makes this change, and updates the website with the API
>> change.
>> 
>> Also it fixes a few stray 'DAPeriodicType's in conf/adic*.init, which
>> I'm guessing was just missed in the previous change to DMDAPeriodicType?
> 
> Do we really need backward compatibility DMDA_XYZPERIODIC and friends?

  Is the | business all fine and dandy for Fortran? If so then I agree we should remove the "noise".

   Barry

> IMHO, I think it introduces API noise for very little benefit (taking
> into account the huge changes to DA API for next release)...
> 
> 
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