Re: [Moose-g3-devel] Revision 27 checked in

[Hugo C. <hug...@gm...>]

I took a look at this new release, and it looks almost like a
reimplementation from scratch.

I only had a superficial glance, but I like the overall code and it
gives a more consistent and transparant impression than the previous
release.  I have several questions:

1. I don't see any of the biophysics / parallel / solver stuff
anymore.  So, or this is work in progress, or this has been accidently
forgotten/removed.  It would be nice to know what the status is, and
to have at least two or three examples of how to work with the new
basecode.

2. I would like to learn more about the relationships between Finfo
and Ftype and related.  e.g. why do we need Ftype and Ftype2.  Is
there any more documentation available about the general relationships
?

3. a question about the tests: wouldn't it be better to separate the
code from the tests completely from the code from the core ?  I have
seen to many cases where bugs in test code were interfering with bugs
in the tested code, such that everything seemed to work properly
although it was not.  For instance, the SimpleElement seems to be
intended for tests only, but is shipped in the basecode directory.

4. If I am correct, Element specific data is supposed to be hidden
with the ->data() method.  I am not sure if I like this idea or not,
it has both advantages and disadvantages: to make sure that I
understand: my guess is that it avoids cases of multiple inheritance,
and it decouples privately owned data, so might require more
implementation work and cause run-time overhead.  I think of this as a
major design decision, and it is different from the previous release
of Moose.  Can you explain the rationale for this, can you explain why
the previous release of Moose did this differently and what the
problems were ?

5. Is it correct to say that this version of Moose adds array based
fields and that this was not present in the previous release ?  Is
this a preparation for array based messaging ?


Hugo


On 2/5/07, Niraj Dudani <ni...@nc...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The new and improved MOOSE has been checked in. Upi has put MOOSE through
> a weight loss programme, and it shows--do refer to the commit log for
> further info.
>
> Invite your comments.
>
> Cheers,
> Niraj
>
>
>
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