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[Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:06:18AM -0600, Anders Logg wrote:
> Here's a short list of things we need to work on for our next release
> which will be 0.5.4.
> 
> - Move remaining modules to new system
> 
>   Maybe Johan H can do heat and convdiff?
>   Maybe Johan J can do wave and elasticity?
> 
>   I will make all required updates of FFC. For example, one might want
>   to have the time step k as a constant in the form, rather than as
>   a function.
> 
> - Remove all the old stuff
> 
>   When the modules have been moved, there are many things we can pull
>   out of the code: in src/kernel/fem, src/kernel/la, src/kernel/form.
>   
> - Work on moving all classes using Array and List to the STL wrappers
>   NewArray and NewList. I think it's mostly the mesh classes that use
>   the old containers. This might require some work.
> 
> We might not be able to remove all the old stuff for 0.5.4 but we can
> try to remove most of it.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> /Anders
> 

It sounds like a good plan. We could also get rid of many
demo-programs and some modules also perhaps. It will be nice to do
this cleaning, the code will be much more manageable.

  Johan