On Nov 6, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Brian W. Barrett wrote:
WHY: ORTE is really quite specific to OMPI. We decided long ago
that ORTE would not split off from OMPI, and it has been
specifically tailored for OMPI. Indeed, Ralph has recently been
expanding "ORTE" to "OMPI Run Time Environment". So let's name the
library what it really is.
Does it really hurt anything to leave the name as is? I know you
love wrapper compilers, but there are a significant number of people
who can't use them for one reason or another (like my case, krufty
Makefiles I don't have control over). It seems like there's almost
no upside, and a significant downside for others.
I understand that some people can't use wrappers, but we added the --
showme options just for these kinds of scenarios. I had thought that
that was sufficient -- are you saying that it's not?
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
