On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Derek Gaston wrote: > Or... you could use libMesh SVN. In general this isn't a bad idea. Most > development activities in libMesh tend not to impact "normal" users on a day > to day basis.
This is typically true - even when utterly upending the mesh class hierarchy to add some parallel meshing support, we managed to keep the required user application changes down to literally "replace Mesh with MeshBase in one or two lines of code". > Note all of the qualifiers in those sentences... just to cover my butt. In about 5 minutes I plan to make the SVN commit I warned about Friday. Although not affecting the core APIs, the change will break every application using FEMSystem, and will probably require dozens to hundreds of lines of (mostly straightforward) changes to fix those applications. So, yeah, nice timing with the qualifiers. For anyone who's worked on an FEMSystem app with me: I'll be committing compatibility changes to the stuff in the CFDLab SVN shortly after I change the library. For anyone who's working on their own FEMSystem stuff and who's just been horribly inconvenienced: email me and I can send a perl script to make 90% of the updates your app will need automatically. --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
