Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hello Pavan, Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but use), and assigned its maintenance to the Debian Scientific Computing team. But I think there are others very

Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 June 2009 at 10:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | Hello Pavan, | | Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing | on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but use), and assigned its | maintenance to the Debian

Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/06/09 at 09:24 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 16 June 2009 at 10:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | On 15/06/09 at 18:32 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | Hello Pavan, | | Thank you for the inquiry. I've somewhat left MPICH for now (focusing | on OpenMPI, which I don't maintain but

Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-16 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:06:34 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: This raises an interesting question: if we package mpich2, couldn't we drop mpich(1) and LAM from Debian? Are there cases where it's more interesting to use mpich v1 or LAM than mpich2 or OpenMPI? yes, there are many scientific tools

Re: MPICH2 packaging

2009-06-15 Thread Pavan Balaji
Thanks Adam. Btw, can you send me the control files for MPICH-1? I can try to modify them to work with MPICH2 (I don't know much about debian binary package creation, but am somewhat familiar with spec files, so a link to get me started on this would be useful as well). All: If anyone is