[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#510057: Bug#510057: Consider creating "default MPI" version

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:11:40AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Because MPICH1 and LAM are long since end-of-life, this is taking on a
> new urgency.  The Debian Science team is planning to deprecate the LAM
> and MPICH1 packages for squeeze, and remove them entirely for squeeze+1.
> [1]  For this reason, a package built against mpi-defaults should be the
> only MPI version of most packages for squeeze and moving forward.
> 
>  [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/11/msg00010.html
> 
> I would be happy to provide a patch to make this happen, as I did to
> create the openmpi version.  If you prefer to have the current three
> plus an mpi-defaults version, I would be happy to make that happen as
> well, just let me know either way.
> 

I have not a strong opinion about the opportunity of supporting just
one MPI flavor or all available ones. In current stable all flavors are
supported and I suppose users would be not so happy to see them
disappearing in squeeze. For sure, current multi-flavor building would
require a decent common infrastructure, instead of different hacks
spreaded around all interested packages. If you MPI maintainers are
not going to support multi-flavors I would prefer to drop that
in squeeze+1.

That said, a patch for add mpi-defaults to current support 
is of course welcome.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine