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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:49 PM Jed Brown via petsc-maint <
petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> "Smith, Barry F. via petsc-maint" <petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>
> >   Yes you have the history exactly right, but keeping them as
> independent beasts seemed/seems impossible; except by doing something very
> cumbersome (like shoving all the PCXXX_YYY that depended on KSP into the
> KSP src directory). So the "opted" was really forced upon us.
>
> We could merge PC and KSP into a single class, perhaps maintaining
> separate lists by typical "role"


Luckily, this was advocated for 20 years ago:
https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/236491.pdf

    Matt


> (the things we call PC are usually
> configured to be linear operations while the things we call KSP are
> iterative).  It would be a major change and I'm not suggesting we
> should, but it would eliminate a lot of duplication and associated
> controversy.
>


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