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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Yes, I will try to backport Boost in my test PPA
> (https://launchpad.net/~johannr/+archive/test-ppa). I am just afraid
> that it will break some of the other packages that depends on the
> older Boost, but I will give it a shot.

It seems to work out nicely. I only had to rebuild UFC against the new
Boost packages and then everything ran smoothly.

It will require some work on the buildbots if we start using Boost MPI.

Johannes