[petsc-dev] Scotch 6.0.8

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 06:26, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>
> > On Aug 27, 2019, at 3:22 AM, Lisandro Dalcin via petsc-dev <
> petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > There is a new scotch release. We should update configure to this
> version. I'm a bit confused about the current status PTscotch.py in
> BuildSystem, it seems to be using the scotch/master from the official repo.
>
> It is using
>
>    self.version          = '6.0.7'
>     self.versionname      =
> 'SCOTCH_VERSION.SCOTCH_RELEASE.SCOTCH_PATCHLEVEL'
>     self.gitcommit        = 'v'+self.version
>     self.download         = ['git:https://gitlab.inria.fr/scotch/scotch',
>                              '
> https://gitlab.inria.fr/scotch/scotch/-/archive/'+self.gitcommit+'/scotch-'+self.gitcommit+'.tar.gz
> ',
>                              '
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/scotch-'+self.gitcommit+'.tar.gz
> ']
>
> which means it is using the tag v6.0.7 from the repo which in a sane world
> corresponds to release 6.0.7 exactly.
>
>
Well, yes, but I'm still wondering why we default to git rather than an
official release tarball.


> To switch to the new release just change the 7 to an 8; test and make a
> merge request. We are not official accepting merge requests yet but despite
> this people are shoving them in like crazy, you might as well join the
> crowd.
>
>
No pressure, I'll do it once merge request acceptance is back to normal.

-- 
Lisandro Dalcin
============
Research Scientist
Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/
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