On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Brice Goglin wrote:

>> - I don't know where we ended up in the other thread: do we want JSON or no? 
>>  If we can parse it easily without an external dependency, then I think it's 
>> worthwhile.
> 
> I stopped working on JSON this to see where the idea of reimplementing
> our own XML parser would go.

Beyond your prior emails on this, any further thoughts?  Especially if we 
restrict to ASCII-only?

>> - OTOH, JSON would be a new feature, and probably shouldn't be introduced 
>> after a x.y.0 release.
> 
> Yeah but it's a new backend, it's supposed to not touch anything in the
> core and to not break other backends.

K, fair enough.

>> - I could bump OMPI to v1.3, but it's not as mature as 1.2.x, which just 
>> makes me a little nervous (the goal for the hwloc stuff is to bring it in 
>> late in the OMPI v1.5 series... but I've already got some feedback that 
>> there might be resistance to what we're proposing to use hwloc for in OMPI, 
>> so we'll see :-) ).
> 
> Agreed, v1.3 is too young for OMPI. I am not sure many people already
> tried v1.3rc1. I wouldn't put it in OMPI before hwloc 1.3.1.

K.

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