Re: [ewg] Compatibility in OFED

2008-06-03 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 01:04 Tue 03 Jun , Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: Separately, we should discuss how me manage version changes - introducing a version change in the middle of the RCs seems a bit late in the process. I agree that number of changes (at all) should be minimized in RC period. BTW the

RE: [ewg] Compatibility in OFED

2008-06-03 Thread John Russo
@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] Compatibility in OFED On 01:04 Tue 03 Jun , Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: Separately, we should discuss how me manage version changes - introducing a version change in the middle of the RCs seems a bit late in the process. I agree that number of changes (at all

Re: [ewg] Compatibility in OFED

2008-06-02 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 09:55 Mon 02 Jun , John Russo wrote: In OFED 1.3rc2 we noticed that libosmcomp's version had changed from 1 to 2. Unfortunately this has caused forward compatibility problems for existing applications which were compiled against OFED 1.2.5.1. It would be preferred if when such

Re: [ewg] Compatibility in OFED

2008-06-02 Thread Betsy Zeller
Sasha - one of the things we discussed at the Sonoma conference was evolving our development process to emphasize the Enterprise in Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution. Part of that is minimizing disruption when new versions of OFED are installed. We want customers to feel comfortable upgrading