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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 September 2011 11:55, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

OK,  what about backporting Boost too? There are a few PPAs already, e.g.

   https://launchpad.net/~infie/+archive/boost-1.47
   https://launchpad.net/~gezakovacs/+archive/boost

Garth

> Johannes
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