I'm looking for input on improving stable release support.

Specifically, libfabric supports external providers, which allow updating 
providers separately from libfabric.  This does not appear to be broadly used, 
and my guess is that may largely be due to the difficulty in creating a 
provider release.

We can build DL providers today.  But how do we expand this to create source 
packages?

As an example, I would like to generate a source package for a provider, say 
tcp, from the latest release.  Ideally, that source package would work with all 
previous libfabric versions.

If a single source package isn't feasible, an alternative would be to generate 
packages for each libfabric version.

I'd like to start with setting up the build system to handle this, then work 
through the code compatibility issues that might arise out of this.

- Sean
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