Thanks Marco - I was hoping that would be the case!
On Feb 18, 2013, at 8:42 AM, marco atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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... >> > [cut] >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
