From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:40:05 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Provide a changes.h entry. X-Git-Tag: v8.3.0-rc1~387^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a5ae2441f28cbda1d332f87e2f4cb1c44b8a8e12;p=dealii.git Provide a changes.h entry. --- diff --git a/doc/news/changes.h b/doc/news/changes.h index 293e9d7711..e9db05ecdf 100644 --- a/doc/news/changes.h +++ b/doc/news/changes.h @@ -313,6 +313,19 @@ inconvenience this causes.
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  1. Improved: We have traditionally had a large number of exceptions + that did not output any useful error message other than the name + of the exception class. This name was suggestive of the error that + had happened, but did not convey a sufficient amount of information + to what happened in many of the places where these kinds of exceptions + were used, nor what may have caused the exception, or how it could + be avoided. We have gone through many of these places and changed + the exception to be much more verbose in what they state about the + problem, its origin, and how it may be solved. +
    + (Wolfgang Bangerth, 2015/02/28-2015/03/31) +
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  2. Changed: We have traditionally used Point@ to represent points in physical space, i.e., vectors that are anchored at the origin, whereas for vectors anchored elsewhere (e.g., differences between points, normal