On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:10 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:11:40AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Because MPICH1 and LAM are long since end-of-life, this is taking on a > > new urgency. The Debian Science team is planning to deprecate the LAM > > and MPICH1 packages for squeeze, and remove them entirely for squeeze+1. > > [1] For this reason, a package built against mpi-defaults should be the > > only MPI version of most packages for squeeze and moving forward. > > > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/11/msg00010.html > > > > I would be happy to provide a patch to make this happen, as I did to > > create the openmpi version. If you prefer to have the current three > > plus an mpi-defaults version, I would be happy to make that happen as > > well, just let me know either way. > > > > I have not a strong opinion about the opportunity of supporting just > one MPI flavor or all available ones. In current stable all flavors are > supported and I suppose users would be not so happy to see them > disappearing in squeeze. For sure, current multi-flavor building would > require a decent common infrastructure, instead of different hacks > spreaded around all interested packages. If you MPI maintainers are > not going to support multi-flavors I would prefer to drop that > in squeeze+1. > > That said, a patch for add mpi-defaults to current support > is of course welcome.
Okay, I will put some time into this approach (adding mpi-defaults, leaving the three in place) when I get some time, probably next week. Thanks, Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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