Re: [gentoo-soc] Weekly Report: July 1 - July 7 | BLAS/LAPACK Runtime Switch

[Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>]

Dear Mo,

Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> This week I
>
> 1. finalized the sci-libs/openblas ebuild file and got it merged into
> ::gentoo.
>
> 2. bumped version for sci-libs/blis
>
> 3. tried to build all reverse dependencies of
> sci-libs/{blas,cblas,lapack}-reference and virtual/{blas,cblas,lapack}
> to scan for possible regression. Result is available here [1].
>
>    For some important software I also ran
>    unittests, for example numpy and octave.
>
> 4. fixed dependency information for two packages during the build
> test.
>   
> 5. Wrote a preliminary documentation about the usage and the project
> [2]

They are just awesome!

> Next I'm going to integrate intel's math kernel library into this
> mechanism. By the mid-July we would be able to present the document to
> more audience and have the mechanism more widely tested.

Looks good to me.

> Maybe I'm a little bit ahead of schedule at this point as all targets
> have almost been completed.  The fact that I'm maintaining a similar
> mechanism for Debian isn't the main reason for this -- It's the
> (unexpected) mechanism redesign that had reduced the amount of
> work. This should be fine as the new design is much better and
> smoother compared to the original one.

This is a tremendous accomplishment!  Thank you for your hard work to
make it reality.

Please go ahead with the documentations and opening bug reports and
Github issues, to guide our users and developers to get familiar with
the switching framework.

> I talked with Benda about the problem. We think Gentoo prefox /
> portage + Debian integration may be the next problem to look into.

s/prefox/Prefix/

Would you please write up a project plan for the Gentoo portage / Debian
dpkg integration in order to revise our GSoC goals?  That might well be
natural next step of your SIMDebian[1].

Yours,
Benda

1. https://github.com/SIMDebian