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[Shawn Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have not been saying much during all of this, but I have been listening 
a bit.  :)

I would like to know if the new function space stuff is ready to be used 
in implementing higher order meshes.  I started looking into this a long 
time ago, but then there was this big re-work.  The stuff I did before was 
kind of a hack, so hopefully this new function space interface will allow 
for easily reading in higher order mesh info.

At this point, I just want to read in a higher order mesh and have that 
info be available to the matrix assembly.  And nothing else.  I'm also not 
proposing that this go into your release.

Any comments?  I will have to relearn this new interface.

- Shawn

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Anders Logg wrote:

> It seems we have sorted out most issues with the new interface so
> let's figure out what we need to make a new release.
>
> Here's the status as far as I understand:
>
>  1. The design for FunctionSpace and Function looks good, including
>  implementation (but some further refinements are expected)
>
>  2. All C++ demos are ok
>
>  3. Some Python demos are ok but others need work
>
> I've listed the status of the Python demos at the end of TODO.
>
> Once the demos have been fixed, we can make a new release. The
> question is then if it should be 0.8.2 or 0.9.0. The interface changes
> are big enough to warrant 0.9.0, and 0.8.2 would sounds like we've done
> bug fixes to an earlier stable branch (which is not really true, we've
> probably introduced some new instead...).
>
> The only problem with 0.9.0 is we're then getting dangerously
> close to 1.0 which sounds scary... :-)
>
> Opinions? Other things that need to be sorted out before a release?
>
> --
> Anders