On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

1) Can we move the section data structures from vecimpl.h to isimpl.h? in preparation for its refactoring and why is PetscSectionCreate in section.c defined in src/vec/vec/impls/seq? Can vsection.c be split in two with the only the "Vec" related routines kept in the Vec directory

All the above makes sense if you agree with this designation as an IS. Can we go over this again to make sure it is correct?

a) PetscSection does a job very similar to PetscLayout, but Layout is not an IS

b) The internals of PetscSection look like two ISes, and a list of embedded PetscSections. This does not sound like an IS

c) I believe the claim will be, "I can always think of the output as a list of integers", however that is a very broad category,

which also includes graphs, meshes, etc. Internally this looks nothing like a list of numbers, and the current queries

do not just return members of this list.

Matt

2) matimpl.h really needs vecimpl.h?

#define __MATIMPL_H

#include <petscmat.h>
#include <petsc-private/petscimpl.h>
#include <petsc-private/vecimpl.h>

Doesn't seem to so I've removed the vecimpl.h and pushed

Seems there may be a few of these unneeded dependencies hanging around, I'll try to hunt them down.

Barry

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