[petsc-dev] Forward declarations of types?

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Why petsc-private/${class}types.h ? Why in the private directory. It is fine and harmless to include in the public part? plus it allows users to do the same trick and not include all the PETSc stuff in much of their code if we end up doing it in a systematic way?
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> Okay, that's fine. It could also be
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> include/petsc/${class}types.h
> include/petsc/private/${class}impl.h
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> if we wanted to reduce the number of files in plain include/.

   silly and unneccessary

> This is mostly relevant when someone installs with --prefix=/usr.
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>    My feeling was that "regular" users could work with a PETSc install where petsc-private wasn't even installed and we just install that so that people can write their own KSP etc etc.  With this addition now petsc-private becomes required.
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> Anyone who writes a plugin needs petsc-private already, but I get the point.