[petsc-dev] [petsc-maint] circular dependency [nightlybuilds did not catch]

Václav Hapla vaclav.hapla at erdw.ethz.ch
Sat May 4 00:45:09 CDT 2019



4. května 2019 1:08:09 GMT+03:00, "Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> napsal:
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>> On May 3, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Hapla Vaclav <vaclav.hapla at erdw.ethz.ch>
>wrote:
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>> OK, so index, idx, other idea?
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>I'm not sure index is that informative (and not expansive enough).
>petscdm.h means nothing, maybe something short that doesn't mean
>anything?

Ok, that directly suggests im. One can interpret is as index mapping/management.

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>> If we would have layout, is, sf, section in the same subdir, I would
>move there also ao and ltog.
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>  Sure
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>> What about the headers - I guess having all those classes in one
>would be easier to handle and avoid circular dependencies, and would
>reflect the directory structure. But should we keep separate
>petsc{ao,is,sf}.h, then I would suggest also separate
>petsc{layout,section,ltog}.h
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>  Separate is better.
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>> When we are at it, why we sometimes have <class>types.h and sometimes
>not?
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>We add these "as needed"; Jed can explain better exactly when they are
>needed.
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>> 
>> Vaclav
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>> (added CC to petsc-dev)
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>>>> map
>>>> imap
>>>> idxmap
>>>> ... or something alike.
>>>> 
>>>> Vaclav
>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Vaclav
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Why not at lest make an additional level between Sys and Vec for
>those sectioning utilities? Would make more sense to me.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Vaclav


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