Yes, we should remove PETSc support for Spools and DSCPack.<div>Should we remove all relevant source codes?</div><div><br></div><div>Hong<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Aron Ahmadia <<a href="mailto:aron.ahmadia@kaust.edu.sa">aron.ahmadia@kaust.edu.sa</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> We can apply this patch, but do you really find Spooles useful? It has not<br>
>> been maintained in a long time.<br>
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> I think that the PETSc project has unofficially been maintaining<br>
> Spooles. If PETSc stops maintaining it, then it might be time to stop<br>
> offering the download option for the project or at least deprecating<br>
> it.<br>
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</div> I think it is time to remove PETSc support for Spools since it is not supported and appears to violate MPI standards that mater on some MPI systems.<br>
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