Comment 4 for bug 420755

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 06:38:40PM -0000, Garth Wells wrote:
>
> Skavhaug wrote:
> > ** Description changed:
> >
> > - Reading MeshFunctions from file fails when running in parallel
> > + Reading MeshFunctions from file fails when running in parallel. Without
> > + a rewrite of the XMLMeshFunction, where the mapping between the mesh
> > + entities and and the vertices is stored as part of the file format, only
> > + vertex and cell valued mesh functions can be used in parallel. Hence, we
> > + only address the cases of cell and vertex entities for now.
> >
>
> The key to getting a number of demos running is to read facet
> MeshFunctions. How much effort will a rewrite require?

Quite a bit I think. It involves changing the XML format. I suggest we
move this to 0.9.4 and add a function not_implemented_in_parallel that
we can put in some key places, like in parsing of MeshFunctions. Then
all demos that fail in parallel will give a sensible message about why
they are failing.

--
Anders