[petsc-dev] Why are the DMDALocalToLocal* not DM commands?

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Aron Ahmadia <aron at ahmadia.net> wrote:
> There was a massive purge where Barry renamed a bunch of the DA commands to either DMDA or moved them over to DM, causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but eventual grudging acceptance that he probably did the right thing :)  
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> I must be missing something, because I don't see why DMDALocalToLocal* shouldn't be DMLocalToLocal* to follow this new paradigm.
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> This was triggered by this question on scicomp: http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/3260/using-same-memory-space-for-global-and-local-petsc-da-vectors
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> Yes, this should be DM. I think the discussion was about keeping it. I am for moving it.

   Having the general call seems reasonable.

   Barry

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>   Matt
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