Re: [Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Roy Stogner wrote: >> So would these be simple wrappers for std::vector > >> ATM, and then use them to broaden the return type for future >> expansion or something? > > Exactly. That way if we expand the API options for 1.0.0 we can still > allow people to write co

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread Roy Stogner
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote: >> Now I'm tempted to write quick LibMesh1Array and LibMesh2Array shim >> classes to go into 0.9.1... > > So would these be simple wrappers for std::vector > > ATM, and then use them to broaden the return type for future > expansion or somet

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Roy Stogner wrote: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30008942 > > You might have missed the first such thread, which was long enough > ago that I can't recall enough keywords to find a link quickly. > > Now I'm tempted to write quick LibMesh1A

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread Roy Stogner
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote: > On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:16 AM, "Roy Stogner" wrote: > >> We might as well wait until we're abstracting those containers more >> anyway to handle the instruction vectorization problems that Derek >> first noticed. > > Huh? I missed this?? Y

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:16 AM, "Roy Stogner" wrote: > We might as well wait until we're abstracting those containers more > anyway to handle the instruction vectorization problems that Derek > first noticed. Huh? I missed this?? ---

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread John Peterson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Cody Permann wrote: > I just noticed that FE::get_normals(), get_tangents() and other related > methods in that class return vectors of "Points". Any desire to change > these return types to VectorValue types? I'd say no, and anyway to be consistent you'd have t

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread Roy Stogner
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Cody Permann wrote: I just noticed that FE::get_normals(), get_tangents() and other related methods in that class return vectors of "Points".  Any desire to change these return types to VectorValue types? Sadly no - we'd hose backwards compatibility if we did. You can

[Libmesh-devel] Simple question

2013-04-12 Thread Cody Permann
I just noticed that FE::get_normals(), get_tangents() and other related methods in that class return vectors of "Points". Any desire to change these return types to VectorValue types? Just curious, Cody -- Precog is a nex