On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Barry Smith wrote: > > There is a theory that the pain of function removal is much larger when > > there are libraries between PETSc and the user, as with the likes of > > Deal.II, FEniCS, and Libmesh. > > i.e. the people who bitch and moan when you change anything. Note that it > seems to be the people who "maintain" the intermediate code that complain the > most, not the end users. > > > Fortran libraries in this role are much > > less common. I.e., perhaps it isn't important to offer deprecated > > Fortran stubs because users can "just update their code" and libraries > > are rarely written in Fortran. I don't recall hearing requests for a > > deprecation process from Fortran users, but we had lots (including in a > > published paper) from users of the C interface. > > Fortran users are even less sophisticated than Barry, they don't know > that the word exists.
Ok - 'deprecate' for c users - and 'remove' for fortran users. That sounds ok to me. Satish
