[petsc-dev] Remove or deprecate DMDALocalToLocalBegin/End when adding DMLocalToLocalBegin/End

[Jed Brown]

Richard Tran Mills <rtm at eecs.utk.edu> writes:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Another question related to adding DMLocalToLocalBegin()/End(): When I do 
> so, the existing DMDALocalToLocalBegin()/End() become redundant.  Should 
> these DMDA routines be removed, or is there some mechanism in place to 
> mark them as deprecated or similar these days?

You can deprecate gently like this:

PETSC_DEPRECATED("Use DMLocalToLocalBegin()") PETSC_EXTERN PetscErrorCode DMDALocalToLocalBegin(DM,Vec,InsertMode,Vec);