[vtk-developers] Science module directory

Will Schroeder will.schroeder at kitware.com
Tue Apr 10 06:04:52 EDT 2012


George-

You said it in your email, how about "DomainSpecific" instead of "Science"
? Science is too narrow a term, I can see all sorts of domains that are not
really science, more engineering or data-related.

W

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:50 PM, George Zagaris
<george.zagaris at kitware.com>wrote:

> Moving AMR under Filters seems reasonable. We may need to have AMR and
> ParallelAMR under Filters for serial and parallel implementations
> respectively (right now everything depends on parallel).
>
> I think a top-level "Science" or similar directory would be useful.
> Right now, it is not clear where domain-specific code should go. I can
> see it grow with, Chemistry, Cosmology, CFD, etc.
>
> Best,
> George
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:42 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> In Modular, I've noticed that Chemistry, Charts, Geovis, AMR only have
> >> Core.  I'm wondering if people have opinions about where they could
> >> go, to reduce the number of directories at the root.
> >>
> >> My thoughts are:
> >>
> >> Science/Chemistry
> >> Filters/AMR
> >> Rendering/Charts
> >> Rendering/Geovis
> >>
> >> It seems that Views also belongs in Rendering, but it already has
> >> subdirectories other than Core.
> >
> > I was trying to think of a good top level container for some of these
> > modules. I agree that Chemistry, Charts, Geovis and AMR all seem like
> > candidates for being moved. If we had Science that could be good for
> > future growth, although right now swaps one top level for another.
> >
> > If anyone can think of anything appropriate for three or four of them
> > that would be great. There are a lot of modules in Rendering, and I
> > would love to use a different top level for more specialized rendering
> > types/implementations.
> >
> > Marcus
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