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From: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-science] Re: Empi, should it be in the science overlay?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:30:15
Message-Id: 20080228162650.GA1002@mejis.cold-front
In Reply to: [gentoo-science] Empi, should it be in the science overlay? by Justin Bronder
1 On 26/02/08 10:45 -0500, Justin Bronder wrote:
2 > I've been spending the majority of my Gentoo-related time working on a
3 > solution to bug 44132 [1], basically, trying to find a way to gracefully
4 > handle multiple installs of various MPI implementations at the same time in
5 > Gentoo. Theres more information about the solution in my devspace [2], but
6 > a quick summary is that there is a new package (empi) that is much like
7 > crossdev, a new eselect module for empi, and a new eclass that handles both
8 > mpi implementations and packages depending on mpi.
9 >
10 > So, I think I have pushed this work far enough along for it to actually be
11 > somewhat officially offered. My question then, is where should this be
12 > located? There are several mpi packages in the science overlay already, so
13 > should I push this work to there, or would it be more appropriate to make a
14 > new overlay specifically for hp-cluster?
15 >
16 > Future work related to this project will be getting all mpi implementations
17 > and dependant packages converted in the same overlay before bringing it up on
18 > -dev for discussion about inclusion into the main tree.
19 >
20 > I have no real preference either way, but the science team does already have
21 > an overlay :) Let me know what you think.
22 >
23 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44132
24 > [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jsbronder/README.empi.txt
25 >
26
27 So I've heard no complaints, I'll be committing this tonight.
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30 Justin Bronder