Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Sylvestre, Am Sonntag, den 25.04.2010, 01:44 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: Well, for now, I would not prefer implementing your proposal. The two first cons seems to me quite important. It is a common thing in numerical computation software to switch between implementations (the various

Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-24 Thread Thomas Weber
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:45:09PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: thanks alot for the effort you put in packaging the several optimized versions of the atlas libraries, BUT I consider it completely unnecessary to put them all into separate packages and leave it up to the user to manually

Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-24 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le lundi 19 avril 2010 à 10:21 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : Am 18.04.2010 11:16, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: By the way, since it has been this way for a decade, would you mind if I lower the importance of this bug ? Please set the severity to what you consider appropriate. OK, thanks.

Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.04.2010 11:16, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: By the way, since it has been this way for a decade, would you mind if I lower the importance of this bug ? Please set the severity to what you consider appropriate. Sorry but I don't know yet. I've spent some though about this issue over the

Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-18 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 à 16:33 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : Am 16.04.2010 16:08, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: I can provide you a compromise here. Beside the current packages, I can try to do a package called libatlas3gf-all which will contain all the various optimisation. The ld

Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: atlas Version: 3.8.3-20 Severity: Important Hi, thanks alot for the effort you put in packaging the several optimized versions of the atlas libraries, BUT I consider it completely unnecessary to put them all into separate packages and leave it up to the user to manually select the

Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-16 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello Fabian, Thanks, it is always interesting to have feedbacks! Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 à 13:52 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : thanks alot for the effort you put in packaging the several optimized versions of the atlas libraries, BUT I consider it completely unnecessary to put them

Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 16.04.2010 14:45, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: Well, some people do not agree on this. I think it is important to let the user select the appropriate optimisation for his computer. Yes, but since by default only the standard non-optimized library packages get installed, it will always require

Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-16 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 à 15:34 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : Am 16.04.2010 14:45, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: Well, some people do not agree on this. I think it is important to let the user select the appropriate optimisation for his computer. Yes, but since by default only the

Bug#578052: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: Bug#578052: [atlas] providing 20 separate optimized library packages is insane

2010-04-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 16.04.2010 16:08, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: By the way, in all cases, the best optimization will be to build custom packages of atlas. By design, prebuilt packages of Atlas are not the best solution. The same is also true for the ffmpeg (and mplayer) package, which I co-maintain. However, a