Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-12-10 Thread Ralph Castain
On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Rainer Keller wrote: Ralph, we delayed the COB for this to 9.12., announced yesterday to prepare to commit today. We updated to get new buglets that were fixed, tested twice on Win (shared&static) and Linux to see that nothing breaks Sounds great! Now we are

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-12-10 Thread Rainer Keller
Ralph, we delayed the COB for this to 9.12., announced yesterday to prepare to commit today. We updated to get new buglets that were fixed, tested twice on Win (shared&static) and Linux to see that nothing breaks Now we are ready to commit and just as well get a r20106 which touches quite a cod

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-25 Thread George Bosilca
Shiqing, Don't waste your time. While the idea behind cccl is nice, the overhead is unbelievably expensive. As a comparison it took 2 hours to compile Open MPI on Windows using cccl and makefile, while it takes less than 4 minutes to compile exactly the same set of functionalities using t

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-25 Thread Shiqing Fan
Hi Ralf, Sorry for replying late. what keeps you from using the autotools-based build system with MSVC? All you should need is a wrapper like cccl. I didn't know this 'cccl' before, but I did give a try last weekend with Cygwin. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it work for Open MPI (late

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-20 Thread Ralph Castain
Hi Rainer Historically, our rules have prohibited the introduction of such features into a sub-release like 1.3.1. Perhaps that policy needs review? We've been pretty strict about it in the past, though...with some good reasons, I admit. Ralph On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Rainer Kelle

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-20 Thread Rainer Keller
Hi Ralph, On Donnerstag, 20. November 2008, Ralph Castain wrote: > 1. since nearly everyone is at SC08, and since next week is a holiday, > the timing of this merge is poor. I would really urge that you delay > it until at least Dec 5 so people actually know about it - and have > time to even think

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I'm probably going to come across as ignorant, and I'm obviously biased on this matter, but: * Tim Mattox wrote on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:53:13PM CET: > > Although I don't use windows myself, I appreciate your > and others' efforts to expand the number of platforms > we can run on. Great work!

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-20 Thread Shiqing Fan
Hi Ralph, 1. since nearly everyone is at SC08, and since next week is a holiday, the timing of this merge is poor. I would really urge that you delay it until at least Dec 5 so people actually know about it - and have time to even think about it No problem, we can delay it. Dec 9th is the last

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-20 Thread Shiqing Fan
Hi Tim, Yes, you're right. Most of those changes are made based on #ifdef __WINDOWS__, that would make troubles for CMRs. Here I provide some more information : These files are harmless, because no other platform will use them (no need to go into 1.3).

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-20 Thread Ralph Castain
HmmmI was just typing this up when Tim's note hit. I also have two concerns that somewhat echo his: 1. since nearly everyone is at SC08, and since next week is a holiday, the timing of this merge is poor. I would really urge that you delay it until at least Dec 5 so people actually know

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: merge windows branch into trunk

2008-11-20 Thread Tim Mattox
I have two concerns. First is that we really need to focus on getting 1.3 stable and released. My second concern with this is how will it effect merging of bugfixes for 1.3 from the trunk once we release 1.3. Will the following modified files cause merge conflicts for CMRs? How big is this diff