[Mitgcm-support] Re: c40 merge - adjoint

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

 tools/adjoint/ sounds perfect to me.
Anyone else care? 

Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> 
> Chris Hill wrote:
> >
> >  Patrick - the top-level directory "adjoint" really
> > looks like it should be under "verification" or
> > "tools" to me. Any chance we could get this
> > fixed before c40 is c40?
> >
> > Chris
> 
> It can be either in tools/ or in pkg/autodiff/,
> but not in verification since the makefile is more or less
> valid in general for the model.
> The only two files needed are
> * adjoint_ecco_sed.com
> * makefile
> 
> What speaks against tools/ is that people might mix it up
> with the makefile for the forward code.
> What speaks against pkg/autodiff/ is that you shouldn't
> compile in the pkg/... directories.
> As a solution, I suggest to introduce tools/adjoint/
> 
> Does that sound like a durable/sustainable/immortal solution?