Re: [Libmesh-devel] Unknown v->type?

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

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Derek Gaston wrote:

> ok - I just committed a fix for this that does work.

Thanks!

> It does kind of suck now that creating a PetscVector from a Vec doesn't quite 
> work properly... it leads to odd breakages like this one where you don't 
> expect it...

What do you think of John's "make the Vec constructor take a type with
no defaults" idea?  It's an API-breaking change, but to an API that
shouldn't be used by most application codes anyway.  And unless
there's a PETSc way to test whether a Vec is ghosted, we can't make
the PetscVector(Vec) constructor work properly without an extra
argument regardless.
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Roy