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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anyway, dolfin must support ufc directly, so in the meantime that
should be enough for syfi support.

--
Martin


2007/9/28, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Yes, it does tie PyDOLFIN closely to FFC. In particular, assemble.py does
>
> from ffc import *
>
> This is necessary to have builtin form evaluation in DOLFIN. It needs a
> form language and it's difficult to support two different languages. We
> really need to implement UFL to have something which is not FFC-specific
> but we can try to find a way around for supporting SyFi forms with
> minimal hassle.
>
> /Anders
>
>
> Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> > Although it is a neat idea, I'm slightly worried about this approach,
> > since it ties FFC very close to PyDOLFIN. I worry that it can create
> > difficulties when using SFC (SyFi) instead of FFC in DOLFIN. Maybe if
> > we create this infamous UFL and inherit from that instead of FFC, that
> > can be a solution, but I'm planning on using DOLFIN and SFC together
> > sooner than we'll likely finish UFL. Anyway, I'll let you know if I
> > hit any real problems when I get that far.
> >
>