[petsc-dev] Is "sieve" a deprecated term?

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 08:04:45 CDT 2017


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am reading some of the DMPlex docs and would like to take the
> opportunity to clean up things I notice. There are several places in the
> man pages and source that "sieve" is mentioned. As far as I know this is
>
- the name of the project that preceded DMPlex
> - a term from category theory
>
> Thus, is it safe to remove all mention of this term from the
> documentation?
>

Yes, you can replace them all by either Plex or DAG I think.

   Matt

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