On 16 Oct 2013, at 21:52, Roland Haas roland.haas@physics.gatech.edu wrote:

Signed PGP part Hello all,

two releases ago (Oersted) we deprecated the old interface. In the last release the default was changed to no longer support the old interface.

Should we (in the upcoming release) fully remove the old interface?

The old interface is extremely slow (since for each grid point there is a call to CCTK_IsThornActive()) and relies on StaticConformal (which almost no other thorn supports and which will likely break in unpredictable ways).

Any opinions on this? Or is this too late to remove functionality and we should instead do so immediately after the next release?

Major changes should happen immediately after a release, so that people working on trunk find all the bugs, and they don't end up in the release. This doesn't usually happen, because people are "burnt out" after a release, and then procrastinate this sort of thing until they remember that there is a release coming, and maybe they should get their changes in...