On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 15:29 -0600, Pavan Balaji wrote: > MPICH2 and Open MPI should have the same priority, isn't it? They are > just alternative implementations of MPI.
Thought about that too but I am unsure how update-alternatives handles that case. The man page talks about only taking action if a priority is higher than the other. It does not mention the special case where they are equal. I did not want to lower MPICH2's importance or something like that; just to have distinct values so I can avoid the need to fix update-alternatives related bugs (again). ;) > mpiexec and mpirun are the same even in MPICH2. mpiexec is required by > the MPI standard, so all implementations provide it. mpirun is just kept > around for backward compatibility since the MPI-1 days. I was not aware of that. So maybe using "mpiexec" as the master alternative might be better/more intuitive? > I think there's a lot of confusion about MPICH2 on this email thread. > I'll be happy to clarify any questions. Not sure if it's specifically about MPICH2. My feeling is that it's more of the general character of dealing with multiple MPI implementations inside the distribution. Best regards Manuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
