On Nov 28, 2014, at 11:58 AM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:

> The same functionality can be trivially achieved at the user level using 
> Adam's approach. If we provide a shortcut in Open MPI, we should emphasize 
> this is an MPI extension, and offer the opportunity to other MPI to provide a 
> compatible support

Are you referring to something Adam Moody proposed?  Or some other Adam?

> Thus, I would name all new types MPIX_ instead of OMPI_ and remove them from 
> the default mpi.h (or "include mpi") to force the users to use mpiext.h and 
> "include mpiext" in order to be able to access them.

FWIW, we've traditionally named Open MPI-specific extensions "OMPI_" instead of 
"MPIX_" (which can be confused with other MPI implementation extensions).

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