On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Derek Gaston <fried...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do really think the classes should be renamed. Coming from the outside
> I would totally think that I need to use SerialMesh when running in serial
> and ParallelMesh when running in parallel. No amount of documentation
> could stop me from trying it that way first ;-)
>
> I do somewhat agree with your reservations about "DistributedMesh"
> though... but I still think it will be way better than what we have. It
> doesn't necessarily map directly to something they know of... so at least
> it will make them pause and try to understand what it means / implies and
> read the (hopefully improved) documentation.
>
> From that standpoint I still kind of think "DecomposedMesh" is maybe a
> little better... it lets people know right away that the mesh is being
> split up. For instance: ReplicatedMesh vs. DecomposedMesh would have made
> perfect sense to the guy that emailed libmesh-users today. He would have
> immediately known that since he wants a copy of the mesh on every processor
> that he wants to use ReplicatedMesh.
>
> We could also go even simpler:
>
> SerialMesh -> BasicMesh
>
> ParallelMesh -> AdvancedMesh
>
> That way it's obvious that one is going to be more complicated than the
> other... and you should really use BasicMesh until you really have a need
> to go with the more "Advanced" option...
>
Basic/Advanced isn't bad actually. It's enough to make it obvious what
Mesh you should start with as a beginner, but not enough to imply anything
about how it actually works or anything about serial vs. parallel, and
thereby forces you to read the docs if you want to know more (which is what
we want).
There's also always "ExascaleMesh" instead of ParallelMesh... ;-)
--
John
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