Damien L-G

> > > * Would it make sense to radically narrow this PR, and convert **_one_** of the exercises to CMake to make your proposed changes easier to understand? We...

> > > > > * Would it make sense to radically narrow this PR, and convert **_one_** of the exercises to CMake to make your proposed changes easier to...

The conflicts would need to be resolved. I would want to double check that when building individual exercises we do not re-download the source as it was the case last...

Essentially in the presence of that `SequentialHostInit` view allocation property we would have to mandate that the resize happens on the host with then mirroring to the device, making sure...

Presumably you tried in your laptop. There is a runtime if guarding a device view construction and a static assert that will fail. On my cell otherwise would paste links...

https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos/blob/5635f200a6f15a8d51e4ed42cfed7bbd9afd9012/containers/src/Kokkos_DualView.hpp#L1072-L1078 Please try to trigger the "resize on device". I indeed cannot find a static assertion that the view is host but clearly that is required.

Actually here is the static assert I would have expected that would fail https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos/blob/5635f200a6f15a8d51e4ed42cfed7bbd9afd9012/core/src/View/Kokkos_ViewAlloc.hpp#L206

> @AdRi1t - could you please rebase? We'd take it from there. Rebase was trivial

Is this PR considered a follow up on https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos/pull/7417 ? Do we want to continue working on it?

> > Is this PR considered a follow up on #7417 ? > > Do we want to continue working on it? > > I would still want to discuss...