Re: [Libmesh-devel] Refactoring suggestion

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Roy Stogner wrote:

> Would anyone mind if I changed our current tree from this:
> MeshBase -> Mesh -> ParallelMesh
> to this:
> MeshBase -> UnstructuredMesh -> SerialMesh
>                             -> ParallelMesh
>
> with "mesh.h" moved to "serial_mesh.h", and replaced with a file which
> just does an include "serial_mesh.h" and typedef SerialMesh Mesh?

As usual, the punishment for not swiftly responding when I suggest
making fundamental changes to the libMesh CVS is having to cope with
whatever I broke while making fundamental changes to the libMesh CVS.

Mesh is now a thin wrapper class, not a typedef (because I wanted to
preserve backwards compatibility with forward declarations; if
everyone else agrees that it's safe to make people replace 'class
Mesh;' with something like 'include "mesh_declare.h"' we'll change
that eventually); otherwise my changes are as described above.

If you have time, cvs update and make sure I haven't inadvertently
broken some compatibility.  If something doesn't work right, there's a
"pre_serialmesh" tag you can revert to until it's fixed.
---
Roy