On Jun 16, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Day wrote:
Just a couple of additional thoughts. First off, when
Open MPI officially goes gold, I would suggest one of
the developers puts up a listing on Freshmeat, as
there are a lot of academics using that to track
projects these days.
Will do.
We've also got the "announce" mailing list -- a low volume list just
for announcing new releases (and *exciting* messages about products you
might be interested in... just kidding.).
Secondly, it's great that Open MPI is going to use a
CPAN-like archive - the projects I know of that do
this are Perl, Python and TeX, and I use all three
extensively. The main problem with such archives is
that they tend not to be that well known and it can be
hard to track updates on them. Perhaps it might be
worth using RSS as a notification service for your
Not a bad idea. I don't know anything about RSS, but I assume that
there's some perl modules that can cure that pretty easily.
COMAN (Comprehensive Open MPI Archive Network)
repository?
:-)
Third, although there'll likely be some source changes
between now and the beta, the configure/make options
are presumably pretty stable, so it would be easy for
me to use the "accident" to draw up a suggested .spec
file for you, so you (or users) can roll RPMs from the
tarball, if you'd be interested.
Thanks for the offer!
We actually got a lot of help in this area from Greg Kurtzer from LBL
(of cAos/Warewulf/Centos fame). He helped us a bunch with our
[previously extremely lame] LAM/MPI .spec file, and then offered to
write one for Open MPI (which he did about a month or two ago).
I have some random user questions about RPMs, though:
1. Would you prefer an all-in-one Open MPI RPM, or would you prefer
multiple RPMs (e.g., openmpi-doc, openmpi-devel, openmpi-runtime,
...etc.)?
2. We're definitely going to provide an SRPM suitable for "rpmbuild
--rebuild". However, we're not 100% sure that it's worthwhile to
provide binary RPMs because everyone's cluster/development systems seem
to be "one off" from standard Linux distros. Do you want a binary
RPM(s)? If so, for which distros? (this is one area where vendors
tend to have dramatically different views than academics/researchers)
--
{+} Jeff Squyres
{+} The Open MPI Project
{+} http://www.open-mpi.org/
