[petsc-dev] [tao-comments #191525] PetscNewLog signature change

[Geoffrey Irving]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
>> On 12 December 2013 18:03, Todd Munson <tmunson at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> >
>> > The idea is to distribute TAO with PETSc and treat it like any other set of PETSc solves.
>> > All the TaoLog (or TaoNewLog) macros should go away in my opinion and be replace with
>> > the correct PETSc equivalents.
>> >
>> > Jason?
>> >
>> > Todd.
>> >
>>
>> Not sure if you guys care about previous PETSc releases, but #define
>> TaoNew[Log] would ease supporting petsc-3.4 in the next TAO release.
>
> There won't be a next [standalone] tao release. It will be part of
> petsc-3.5.
>
> And I'm not sure if maintaining a separate tao_version.h makes sense.
>
> And there will be a minimal changing of adapting the makefiles to to
> this new mode [if one needs to maintain comatibility with
> both petsc-3.4+tao-2.2 and petsc-3.5/tao].
>
> You can check the current state of this migration at 'balay/tao-to-petsc' branch.

That's awesome.  To confirm: I should just merge balay/tao-to-petsc
into the irving/hollow branch of petsc that I'm using to track the new
features I need for my simulator development?   I.e., is that branch
stable enough to track with repeated merges?

Geoffrey