Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hello Pavan, Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but use), and assigned its maintenance to the Debian Scientific Computing team. But I think there are others very

Re: OpenMPI transition

2009-06-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:00 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hi, Last week OpenMPI transitioned to a new shared library package, reflecting an ABI change to version 1.3.x (which wasn't reflected in the shared lib package name of 1.3-2). From what I can see, it looks like there are at least

Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 June 2009 at 10:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | Hello Pavan, | | Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing | on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but use), and assigned its | maintenance to the Debian

Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/06/09 at 09:24 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 16 June 2009 at 10:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | Hello Pavan, | | Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing | on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but

Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:06:34 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: This raises an interesting question: if we package mpich2, couldn't we drop mpich(1) and LAM from Debian? Are there cases where it's more interesting to use mpich v1 or LAM than mpich2 or OpenMPI? yes, there are many scientific tools

Re: OpenMPI transition

2009-06-16 Thread Luk Claes
Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:00 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hi, Last week OpenMPI transitioned to a new shared library package, reflecting an ABI change to version 1.3.x (which wasn't reflected in the shared lib package name of 1.3-2). From what I can see, it looks

Re: OpenMPI transition

2009-06-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:10 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:00 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hi, Last week OpenMPI transitioned to a new shared library package, reflecting an ABI change to version 1.3.x (which wasn't reflected in the shared