Hi All, I am forwarding my email to Sebastien regarding the merging of blas- and cblas-reference into one package. Sebastien accepted this idea, but we would like to hear your opinions as well, since you are the real users of scientific libraries in Gentoo.
BR, /Adam -------- Wiadomość oryginalna -------- Temat: BLAS and CBLAS in Gentoo Data: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:44:48 +0200 Nadawca: Adam Piątyszek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adresat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Sebastien, How are things going around your new design of scientific libs in Gentoo? Do you have an overlay, which can be pulled with layman? BTW, while working with one Debian developer on improving IT++ in Debian, I realised that we might consider merging blas-reference and cblas-reference into one package. This is done in many distributions (Debian, SUSE, PLD Linux, even in Cygwin). I can see mostly advantages of such a step: 1) cblas-reference provides only bindings to a Fortran BLAS library, which is usually blas-reference 2) There would be no need to have an extra virtual/cblas. "eselect blas set reference" for instance should set both blas and cblas links. 3) People who use BLAS through C interface usually do not mix different libraries, e.g cblas-reference + BLAS from MKL 4) CBLAS is included in both ATLAS and MKL, besides ACML implements their own C bindings to BLAS routines (a bit incompatible though) 5) The compilation time of joint blas- & cblas-reference will not be critical for those who need only Fortran BLAS. Anyway, we can disable CBLAS in such a joint package with USE="-cblas" flag. What do you think? BR, /ediap -- .:. Adam Piatyszek - "ediap" .:. JID: ediap(at)jabber.org .:. .:. ediap(at)users.sourceforge.net .:. PGP key ID: 0x1F115CCB .:.
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