On May 9, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Blaise Bourdin wrote:
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>>> Lastly, since the changes DA->DMDA and in XXXDestroy are already going make
>>> many people angry, is it time to rename Vec PetscVec and Mat PetscMat?
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>> Good question. If so, then shouldn't we name space everything? PetscSNES,
>> etc etc etc Maybe wait until next release so there are not too many user
>> changes this release?
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> How feasible would it be to mark all non-namespace names as deprecated until
> the next release but offer preprocessor macros in the meantime? This would
> buy everybody some time.
PETSc has never tried to provide any backward compatibility nor is it likely
to in the future, despite a very small number shrill complaints. Users can
switch to a later version when they want to and make the needed changes at that
time.
Barry
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