Re: [O-MPI users] Further thoughts

2005-06-17 Thread Tim Mattox
Hello, This has been an interesting discussion to follow. Here are my thoughts on the RPM packaging... On 6/16/05, Jeff Squyres wrote: [snip] > We've also got the "announce" mailing list -- a low volume list just > for announcing new releases (and *exciting* messages about products you > might b

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-17 Thread Ben Allan
Please paste the quoted text (appropriately expanded) into a readme or install or some other prominent doc location/appendix as soon as possible if it isn't there already. Details like this matter a lot to a few of us, and many of us haven't drunk completely the 3000 gallons of twisted logic that

Re: [O-MPI users] Further thoughts

2005-06-17 Thread Ben Allan
Having been a vict^H^H^H^Hproducer of rpms for hpc apps, and from what i've seen of your installed files (which isn't an extremely large set) I vote as follows: 1) all-in-one. given the current state of HPC, nearly all "users" are also developers. 2) I'm in favor of source rpms, most particularl

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-17 Thread Jeff Squyres
'tis already in the README. Someday we'll have nice glossy PDF's like LAM, but for the beta, the README is what you get. :-) On Jun 17, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Ben Allan wrote: Please paste the quoted text (appropriately expanded) into a readme or install or some other prominent doc location/app