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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21 September 2011 11:06, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> A while ago, we used some Boost MPI but then removed it because of
>>> some older systems lack support. Could we start using it now? I would
>>> like to. It would make some parallel things a lot simpler. Would the
>>> buildbots need to be updated?
>>
>> Yes, some of them would need an update. Also, we would no longer be
>> able to provide packages for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which is by far the
>> Ubuntu version with the most downloads from the PPA.
>>
>
> OK, so the decision is whether or not to continue support for 10.04.
> Since I don't use 10.04 but I do use MPI, I vote for ditching 10.04
> and using Boost MPI. A compromise would be to use Boost MPI, and not
> provide parallel support in the 10.04 package.
>
> How do we deal with Swig 2 in 10.04? Or is it not required since the
> wrappers have already been generated?

I have backported SWIG 2.0 to Lucid.

Johannes