On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:07:39PM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Ralph Castain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Jeff - you are jumping way ahead. I already said this needs further work to
> > resolve blocking. These patches (per Adrian's email) just makes things
> > compile
>
> Fair enough.
>
> But in some ways, having uncompilable code is a *good* thing, because it
> tells you exactly where you need to work on the architecture. Just updating
> it to *compile* removes that safeguard -- will you remember/re-find all those
> places where it *used* to block and convert the architecture to workaround
> the blocking?
>
> I guess I'm saying: what exactly does updating it to compile get for us, if
> we know the code still won't work? It seems like all we'll be doing is
> removing the grep-able places where we *know* we'll have to do work in the
> future.
My goal was to let people see what I am doing and especially to decrease
the number of patches I have to carry locally. I am not familiar enough with
the Open MPI code (yet) to fix it correctly in the first try. Without
having a code which compiles I personally cannot continue fixing the
functionality. These patches are the first step which I wanted to make
public. I can update the patches to include 'FIXME' in all the place if
required.
Adrian
