create/destroy name change proposal

[Tim Tautges]

The iGeom issues should be separate, as that interface is far from what I'd call ready for even limited release.

I think we should deal with the name consistency issues in one issue, and other issues separately.

on the getData functions, that brings up another issue that's come up recently, the fact that there are no corresponding 
get/setEntSetArrData functions.  There should be.  But, again, that's a separate issue from the names one.

- tim

Mark Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 16:18, James Porter wrote:
>>     iMesh_addPrntChld -> iMesh_addParentChild
>>     iMesh_rmvPrntChld -> iMesh_rmvParentChild
>>     iMesh_getNumChld  -> iMesh_getNumChildren
>>     iMesh_getNumPrnt  -> iMesh_getNumParents
>>     iMesh_getChldn    -> iMesh_getChildren
>>     iMesh_getPrnts    -> iMesh_getParents
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>> All that said, I think iGeom is in more urgent need of an audit, since
>> even some of the functions that have iMesh equivalents have different
>> names (e.g. iMesh_getEntArrAdj vs. iGeom_getArrAdj).
> 
> So, I admit that I am almost completely ignorant of iGeom. I haven't
> used it. But, I didn't think that has a concept of an 'entity' like
> iMesh does. I could be blowing smoke here but I thought the concept of
> an entity in iMesh was related to discretization of an abstract point
> set into elemental pieces used in numerical approximations and that
> iGeom is concerned only with the abstract point set part of that. If
> that is so, I can see why 'Ent' might be missing in the names of the
> analogous iGeom functions.
> 
>> - Jim

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