[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#510057: Consider creating "default MPI" version

2010-01-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
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

[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#510057: Consider creating "default MPI" version

2008-12-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: hdf5 Severity: wishlist As you know, building against MPI is tricky. Lots of folks have adopted a strategy of building against OpenMPI on architectures it supports and using LAM for the rest [1]. However, that means the knowledge of which architectures can build OpenMPI is replicated in