On 5/22/13 9:35 AM, "Ralph Castain" <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>* this isn't about Craig and his abilities - this is a more general >requirements discussion. I personally wouldn't change my comments if it >was Jeff or Brian making the request - the issue remains the same. >Introducing another language requirement on the > user-level build isn't a minor issue. Just because someone knows a >language seems a weak argument - I had to learn perl to work on the build >system too. The differences aren't that huge, and the barrier isn't that >high. What Ralph said. My objections are largely to introducing another language dependency (we should strive to keep these as small in number as possible). As I said, I'm strongly against using Python in the build system (unless we replace all Perl with Python, which I doubt anyone wants to deal with). I have a slight preference for not using non-Bourne Shell things in the configure / make stages, but that's not anywhere near as strong as the dislike of adding new languages to support in the build system. Brian -- Brian W. Barrett Scalable System Software Group Sandia National Laboratories
