Any change to improve and simplify the user experience for the
`math/lapack2` addon is welcome from my POV!

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 3:22 AM chris burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On point 1, it is not necessary that addon code be compatible with
> earlier versions.
>
> You can use RELEASE in the manifest to specify which releases are
> supported. Use j904 or j9.4 to support only the current release, e.g.
>
>    RELEASE=: 'j9.4'
>
> If so, the builds for earlier versions will remain unchanged.
>
> See also code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/Developers_Guide#Release
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 1:25 AM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Your contributions are always welcome!
> >
> > On the point 2, & means no memu applied. The trailing \0 might be absent.
> > Nevertheless, LAPACK are fortran routines so that C style strings are not
> > expected.
> > Therefore I _think_ that is OK.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:55 PM Igor Zhuravlov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear addon maintainers,
> > >
> > > 1. Addon code looks outdated a bit. Is it done intentional to provide
> > > addon
> > > compatibility with older JE versions? If not, I'd like to prepare pull
> > > request
> > > to update code. No hardcore with multitasking and modifier trains,
> just a
> > > few
> > > nice J9.4 features, plus some refactoring and bug fixes.
> > >
> > > 2. LAPACK specs distinguish "in" (i.e. read-only) parameters type.
> Those
> > > are
> > > eligible candidates to be marked with & instead of * in parameters
> list of
> > > addon interface verbs, to avoid copying. Are there any objections for
> this
> > > massive change?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Igor
> > >
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