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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:10:08PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
> I would like to add factory functions in UFC, in particular
>
>   finite_element* finite_element::create() const;
>   dof_map* dof_map::create() const;
>
> Are there any objections to this? It would be easy to add and easy to
> implement in FFC.
>
> I need it to implement refinement of FunctionSpaces in DOLFIN where
> fresh copies of ufc::finite_element and ufc::dof_map are needed given
> a ufc::finite_element or ufc::dof_map.
>
> An alternative is to hack create_sub_foo so that it returns a copy of
> the element/dofmap itself if the component argument 'i' is >= the
> number of sub elements/dofmaps.

I suggest we add this to UFC 1.6 and make a release next week together
with DOLFIN 0.9.10, FFC 0.9.5 + other packages that need release. The
sooner the better: there will be time to make bug fix releases and
things will be tested before 1.0 in March.

If there are any other things we want to add to UFC, now's a good
time.

--
Anders