[petsc-dev] forget about libmpiuni completely

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 17 February 2010 13:38, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I do not think this handles the situation for libraries. I write a library.
> It is
> supposed to work with lots of stuff, including PETSc. I put in mpi.h, which
> is completely reasonable. Then the user of the library wants to use mpiuni.
>

Well, I cannot buy that a user REALLY want to use mpiuni, as it is not
even a true serial MPI alternative...

>
> This works now, but would break in your model.
>

That's a valid point (but from a developer POV, not from a user POV, IMHO)

> I still much prefer a separate package. It think it is cleaner, unambiguous
> what is happening, and would allow someone not as lazy as us to do a full
> serial MPI.

Like mpi-serial, from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mct/ ??

Do you think that it is work the effort to integrate it in PETSc,
provided that mpiuni already serves (well?) PETSc requeriments?



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