On 2/18/2013 5:10 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
WHAT: Remove all Windows code from the trunk.
WHY: This issue keeps coming up over and over and over...
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2. Remove all Windows code. This involves some wholesale removing of
components as well as a bunch of #if code throughout the code base.
==> Removing this code can probably be done in multiple SVN commits:
2a. Removing Windows-only components (which, given the rate of change that we
are planning for the trunk, may well need to be re-written if they are ever
re-introduced into the tree).
Cygwin does not use them. I'm currently building the trunk packages with
--enable-mca-no-build=paffinity,installdirs-windows,timer-windows,shmem-sysv,if-windows,shmem-windows
to specifically exclude them
2b. Removing "#if WINDOWS" code (e.g., in opal/util/*, etc.). This code may
not be changing as much as the rest of the trunk, and may be suitable for svn reverting
someday.
This does kill Cygwin support, too. I realize we have a downstream packager
for Cygwin, but the fact that we can't get any developer support for Windows --
despite multiple appeals -- seems to imply that the Windows Open MPI audience
is very, very small. So while it feels a bit sad to kill it, it may still be
the Right Thing to do.
I assume it is __WINDOWS__
That is not defined on cygwin, so the build should survive
This is a proposal, and is open for discussion.
Regards
Marco
