Re: MPICH2 packaging
On 16/06/09 at 09:24 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 16 June 2009 at 10:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> | On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> | > Hello Pavan,
> | >
> | > Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing
> | > on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but use), and assigned its
> | > maintenance to the Debian Scientific Computing team. But I think there
> | > are others very interested in MPICH2, and am copying the debian-science
> | > list to gauge interest.
> |
> | (Adding Camm Maguire, the LAM maintainer as Cc)
>
> That address has been out of commission for a while; Camm used to work there
> but AFAIK no longer does. I don't have the replacement address handy though.
>
> | This raises an interesting question: if we package mpich2, couldn't we
> | drop mpich(1) and LAM from Debian? Are there cases where it's more
> | interesting to use mpich v1 or LAM than mpich2 or OpenMPI?
>
> As a former Open MPI co-maintainer: yes, LAM is to be deprecated one day as
> Open MPI is actively developed whereas LAM is dead. On the other hand, Open
> MPI is available on only a subset of architectures. It's tricky.
>
> That said, getting good MPICH2 in would be super too!
Would you want to co-maintain it?
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