[gentoo-science] Re: Empi, should it be in the science overlay?

[Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org>]

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On 26/02/08 10:45 -0500, Justin Bronder wrote:
> I've been spending the majority of my Gentoo-related time working on a
> solution to bug 44132 [1], basically, trying to find a way to gracefully
> handle multiple installs of various MPI implementations at the same time in
> Gentoo.  Theres more information about the solution in my devspace [2], but
> a quick summary is that there is a new package (empi) that is much like
> crossdev, a new eselect module for empi, and a new eclass that handles both
> mpi implementations and packages depending on mpi.
> 
> So, I think I have pushed this work far enough along for it to actually be
> somewhat officially offered.  My question then, is where should this be
> located?  There are several mpi packages in the science overlay already, so
> should I push this work to there, or would it be more appropriate to make a
> new overlay specifically for hp-cluster?
> 
> Future work related to this project will be getting all mpi implementations
> and dependant packages converted in the same overlay before bringing it up on
> -dev for discussion about inclusion into the main tree.
> 
> I have no real preference either way, but the science team does already have
> an overlay :)  Let me know what you think.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44132
> [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jsbronder/README.empi.txt
> 

So I've heard no complaints, I'll be committing this tonight.

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Justin Bronder

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