I On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > On Sep 9, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Hong Zhang <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > Yes, we should remove PETSc support for Spools and DSCPack. > > Should we remove all relevant source codes? > > Any source that would be dead code if you don't use Spools or DSCPack > should be removed. > > Barry > > It will always be there in the deleted part of the repository so it is > never truly lost. > I'll do the removing. Hong > > > > > > Hong > > > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Aron Ahmadia <aron.ahmadia at kaust.edu.sa> > wrote: > > > > >> We can apply this patch, but do you really find Spooles useful? It > has not > > >> been maintained in a long time. > > >> > > > > > > I think that the PETSc project has unofficially been maintaining > > > Spooles. If PETSc stops maintaining it, then it might be time to stop > > > offering the download option for the project or at least deprecating > > > it. > > > > > I think it is time to remove PETSc support for Spools since it is > not supported and appears to violate MPI standards that mater on some MPI > systems. > > > > Barry > > > > > A > > > > > > -- > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > This message and its contents, including attachments are intended > solely > > > for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or > have > > > received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete > > > this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or > > > distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before > printing > > > this email. > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120909/31cdbd4c/attachment.html>
