[petsc-dev] Runtime errors for spooles on BlueGene/Q

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 9, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Hong Zhang <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Yes, we should remove PETSc support for Spools and DSCPack.
> Should we remove all relevant source codes?

   Any source that would be dead code if you don't use Spools or DSCPack should be removed. 

   Barry

It will always be there in the deleted part of the repository so it is never truly lost.


> 
> Hong
> 
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Aron Ahmadia <aron.ahmadia at kaust.edu.sa> wrote:
> 
> >> We can apply this patch, but do you really find Spooles useful? It has not
> >> been maintained in a long time.
> >>
> >
> > I think that the PETSc project has unofficially been maintaining
> > Spooles.  If PETSc stops maintaining it, then it might be time to stop
> > offering the download option for the project or at least deprecating
> > it.
> >
>     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.
> 
>     Barry
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