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Re: building package with different libs



Am Freitag, den 31.10.2008, 01:36 +0000 schrieb Chris Walker:
>  "LAM/MPI is now in a maintenance mode. Bug fixes and critical patches
>  are still being applied, but little real "new" work is happening in
>  LAM/MPI. This is a direct result of the LAM/MPI Team spending the
>  vast majority of their time working on our next-generation MPI
>  implementation -- Open MPI."

In the next paragraph it says: "we would encourage all users to try
migrating to Open MPI [...] Make today an Open MPI day!"

The page was last updated almost two years ago and TTBOMK the last
release happened in Feb 2007, the release before that was in 2004. So
technically, yes, LAM is not "dead". But the message is quite clear, and
I'd like to encourage our users to switch. It also makes maintainance a
lot easier, and the current situation is a burdon at best. IMHO better
packages help our users a lot more then many buggy ones. I do not think
the the LAM people do a bad job; they sure do a good one. But I'm not
very confident that the maintainance will stay for a lot more years. But
I'll check with the authors.

Best regards
Manuel

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