Concur. And fix that petscmg.h name at the same time :-) Barry
On Mar 13, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > The solvers all have DM members now, but they only depend on the generic DM > interface. Currently all of DMDA and now DMMesh are piled into petscdm.h > which means that all the solvers need to be rebuilt any time these > implementations change (e.g. a new implementation-specific function is > added). The user already needs to decide which DM to use (DMDA, DMMesh, etc) > so it would be no hardship to include petscdmda.h instead of just petscdm.h. > For user-defined implementations of DM, this is already necessary. > > In order to loosen the dependency of the solvers on DM, I propose distilling > petscdm.h to be only the core DM functionality (roughly what is in _DMOps) > and creating petscdmda.h and petscdmmesh.h for the DMDA* and DMMesh* > functions. Note that there is already some precedence for this in petscmg.h > (which perhaps should be named petscpcmg.h), though I think the case for > separation is much stronger for DM. > > If this change is going to happen, it should be before the release.
