Hello, * Jeff Squyres wrote on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:49:23PM CET: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Brian W. Barrett wrote: > >>> WHY: ORTE is really quite specific to OMPI. We decided long ago >>> that ORTE would not split off from OMPI, and it has been >>> specifically tailored for OMPI. Indeed, Ralph has recently been >>> expanding "ORTE" to "OMPI Run Time Environment". So let's name the >>> library what it really is. >> >> Does it really hurt anything to leave the name as is?
> I understand that some people can't use wrappers, but we added the -- > showme options just for these kinds of scenarios. I had thought that > that was sufficient -- are you saying that it's not? Changing the library name is an incompatible change for all programs and libraries that are linked against it; i.e., it requires relinking. Hmm, OpenMPI seems not to use versioning for its shared libraries. Do you just declare each release API+ABI-incompatible to each other release? Cheers, Ralf
