[CppAD] A Backward Compatibility Issue Question

[Brad Bell]

Kipp:
Thanks for the feedback. The new version of CppAD will keep the old 
functions, f.Dependent(y) will be deprecated but it will still be usable 
when there is only one active tape (print_for will also be usable in 
this case).

kmartin wrote:

>Hi Brad:
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>>Is anyone using the CppAD f.Dependent(y) syntax ?
>>   http://www.coin-or.org/CppAD/Doc/dependent.xml
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>Yes, I use this in a number of places.
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>>Is anyone using the CppAD PrintFor(text, y) syntax ?
>>   http://www.coin-or.org/CppAD/Doc/printfor.xml
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>No, I do not use this.
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>>These two functions use the fact that there is only one CppAD tape in
>>order to infer which tape to use. This creates a problem for the current
>>development effort (described below).
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>>Would it be a problem if I changed the syntax for these functions so
>>that they identify what tape to use ?
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>I am willing to change. However the following would be nice. Right now I
>point my Externals file to
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>cppad         https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CppAD/trunk/cppad
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>If you could make a stable version of the current project with the new
>naming (cppad versus CppAD) so I could point to that rather than trunk.
>This way I would not be affected by the change to multiple tapes in the
>short run. In fact going with multiple tapes seems like a fairly major
>change so creating a stable version at this point seems logical.
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>Thanks
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>>Current Development Effort
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>>You can find a description of OpenMp at
>>   http://www.openmp.org/drupal/
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>>The Gnu compiler collection now supports OpenMP
>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html
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>>This is part of the CppAD wish list item: Multiple Tapes with Same Base
>>Type; see
>>   http://www.coin-or.org/CppAD/Doc/wishlist.htm
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>>I am currently working on this item. You can see the progress in the
>>OpenMp branch on
>>   https://projects.coin-or.org/CppAD/timeline
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