Brice Goglin, le Wed 25 Apr 2012 16:58:16 +0200, a écrit : > On 25/04/2012 16:55, Jeff Squyres wrote: > >On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > >>>FWIW: Having lstopo plugins for output would obviate the need for having > >>>two executable names. > >>Well, it seems overkill to me. It makes sense to me to have both > >>xlstopo and lstopo. > > > >Ick. FWIW, I dislike having two executables. I like having one executable > >that can adapt itself to whatever is loaded / available on the system. :-) > > > >But if I'm in the minority, no problem... > > > >If I'm not, I can work on a patch to see if it would be horribly > >disruptive... > > > > FWIW, the plugin question may come back within a couple month because we'll > have an intern looking at managing all backends better inside the hwloc > core.
Well, that's not the same part of the code :) The core definitely needs plugins, to support dynamic selection between linux & x86 detection, for instance. Samuel