2009/12/16 Garth N. Wells <gn...@cam.ac.uk> Anders Logg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:16:08PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote: >> >> Anders Logg wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:54:54PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote: >>>> Anders Logg wrote: >>>>> Marie and I have had some discussions on the redesign and FFC and >>>>> here's what came out: >>>>> >>>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ffc/+spec/ffc-redesign >>>>> >>>>> This allows us to remove both FiniteElement and DofMap since we won't >>>>> be needing any of those in the code generation stage. >>>>> >>>> And where does the transition to the new FIAT fit in? >>> It's quite orthogonal to that. We just need to make sure that we use >>> the new FIAT interface in stage 2. >>> >>> Note that with this new design (which is really just a stricter >>> and cleaner version of what I originally intended) FIAT will only be >>> called in stage 2 which will make things easier. >>> >>> I will start on changing things from the top and down, starting with >>> cleanups in compiler.py and then we can go from there. >>> >> I am completely confused by the strategy. We discussed moving the work >> on the FIAT transition to lp:~ffc-core/ffc/dev, but now FiniteElement >> has been removed and the message says that everything is broken. We to >> have several things going on at once, none of which are working. Would >> it be more sensible to make one thing at a time work? There seems to be >> no clear plan. > > The redesign is difficult to do one step at a time. I would have liked > to do it in careful steps but I don't see how. > > Here's a more detailed plan: > > 1. I rework compile.py tonight. > If the changes are so close, why is the target for the Blueprint release 0.9 (we're at 0.7.1 now)? > 2. We make the compiler stages work again, one at a time. > > As part of step 2, we make sure that we > > a) Use the new FIAT interface > > b) Use the code Kristian has been working on for evaluate_basis > Kristian: what's the prognosis on this? Hopefully I'll finish evaluate_basis tomorrow. Kristian Garth > -- > Anders _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ffc Post to : ffc@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ffc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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