> To process large dataset this is an important feature to support.

Exactly my use case.

> After the GCC 5 transitions are completed we need to revisit this topic

Would it avoid troubles later on if we took the opportunity and rename the
netcdf package(s) to netcdf-*-serial now?

--Nico


On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:25 PM Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 02-08-15 17:17, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> >> also switches back to
> >> the HDF5 serial variant because we cannot provide only the MPI variant.
> >
> > Dang, this was the most important thing for me. I have been under the
> > assumption that using MPI provides all the capabilities that the serial
> > variant provides, plus parallel computation. Were build failures related
> to
> > the fact that we used to ship MPI versions?
>
> Yes, the ncview & gmt FTBFS were directly caused by only having the MPI
> variant available. Most others were only caused by the non-standard HDF5
> library paths that were all fixed with the patched nc-config & netcdf.pc.
>
> After the GCC 5 transitions are completed we need to revisit this topic
> and take Gilles up on his offer to help netcdf support co-installable
> MPI variants as HDF5 does. To process large dataset this is an important
> feature to support.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
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