Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:57:22PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > One solution is to standardize around the "latest and greatest". With a > > lot of old MPI implementations merging and steering their development > > effort into OpenMPI, that seems to be a leader in this regard. But it's > > not on all of Debian's platforms, see Bug 376833. So I have petsc, > > babel, hypre and a couple of my others using OpenMPI on its platforms > > and LAM where there's no OpenMPI. It's a big headache!
I have put some links about Parallel/distributed computing on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Programming - though perhaps it deserves a wiki page on its own (and it is also a topic I'm not an expert on). Can I encourage you to summarize the situation on the wiki. > > I think that is a sensible approach; maybe it would be possible to > support the others in the source package, but not build them by default > in Debian. I.e. have e.g. -mpich in debian/control, but only build them > if e.g. DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains mpich or something. > > Doesn't solve the "how to conflict at package level" problem much, > though. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
