Re: [Libmesh-devel] namespace MeshCommunication?

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

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Benjamin Kirk wrote:

> http://libmesh.sourceforge.net/doxygen/classMeshCommunication.php
>
> At one point  MeshCommunication actually held data...  But no more.  Should
> we make this a namespace instead?  It seems rather silly to implement a
> MeshCommunication "object"  just to get at its public methods...

Personally, I'd rather move the declaratations of MeshCommunication
methods to MeshBase, then move their definitions to UnstructuredMesh
(in a new file, "unstructured_mesh_communication.C", perhaps).  It
would be nice if we could have a communication object/namespace that
was really independent of mesh type, but I'm pretty sure that whoever
tries to extend MeshBase->CartesianMesh will discover that that's just
wishful thinking.  ;-)
---
Roy