On 04/17/2016 05:42 PM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > In related work, I've been preparing co-installable netcdf (serial, mpi, > pnetcdf) > on the branch dev-coinstallable. > > It still needs more testing (especially symbols lists), and to be merged > with 4.4.1 changes; > it would not require a transition except that it renames : > libnetcdf11 -> libnetcdf-11 > > because other packages have: > libnetcdf-mpi-11 (linked against default mpi, typically openmpi) > libnetcdf-pnetcdf-11 > > I switched to this convention because other mpi-related packages do so, eg. > libhdf5-openmpi-8 > > I suspect this is because the mpi variant may also have a version number > included, eg. > libhdf5-mpich2-8 > > I'm not fixated on this namechange either way, what does everyone think? > If we were to go with the name change, this would be a good time to do it. I don't want to entangle this with the regular transition, adopting your changes needs a whole lot more thought, testing, and upstream adoption. I'm very uncomfortable with adopting such a drastic change without buy-in from the upstream developers. Have you discussed this issue with the NetCDF developers? Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
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