Just in case anyone wonders: I can understand Jeff's motivation to
rationalize the libraries name with what is in it. There is no
"OpenRTE" any more - it has truly become the "OMPI RTE" - so I
sympathize with what he was trying to do.
That said, I truly don't have strong feelings either way on this
proposal, so whatever is decided is just fine with me. My local
customer base never sees the library name, and doesn't care what it is
called.
On Nov 7, 2008, at 4:38 AM, Terry Dontje wrote:
I do not see the real value in doing this name change. The name
"OMPI Run Time Environment" and libopen_rte.so are not that far from
each other. Changing a bunch of Makefile.am's at this point in the
game for what I consider a minor cosmetic difference just makes
little sense to me.
On the technical side what I hate about this is Sun is about to
release its second distribution base on 1.3. If the below change
goes through this guarrantees that the next CT release will be
incompatible with CT8.1. Now we can go through the discussion of
whether such a compatibility will exist aside from this change but
it would be nice to try and stabilize the items we have.
I have very little confidence that if we change the library name to
libompi_rte.so that at the end of 1.4 we decide it should be named
something else. I also wonder if we do change the rte library if we
should also change the name of libopen_pal.so.
Anyways, Sun votes no on this rfe.
--td
Jeff Squyres wrote:
WHAT: Rename libopen-rte to be libompi-rte (and probably other
supporting text)
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.
WHERE: See attached patch; basically, a bunch of Makefile.am's
WHEN: Before v1.3
TIMEOUT: Teleconference, Tues 11 Nov 2008
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The change is fairly minor, and 98% of OMPI users won't notice.
Only those who are not using wrapper compilers properly will notice
the change (and they should be using the wrapper compilers; we
strongly recommended that everyone either directly use the wrapper
compilers to compile/link their apps, or use the wrappers to get
the required flags [including library names] to compile/link their
apps).
I don't know if Sun has any policies about library name changes
between versions, or if it'll create problems since CT8 has already
been released. As a history note, we changed this library name in
v1.2 from "liborte" to "libopen-rte". This would be another change.
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