Re: [Chasm-interop-devel] The future of Chasm?

[Craig R. <cra...@la...>]

No to F2008 and no to users outside of Babel that are a concern.

I would suggest splitting up the resources.  Perhaps Babel could help  
with the autocon stuff as it seems best to make Chasm and Babel  
builds more consistent.  Since I'm the only one who knows about the  
descriptor stuff, I can handle updating that.

Regards,
Craig


On Dec 11, 2007, at 3:52 PM, ber...@or... wrote:

> Okay, now that I can finally post here, I can suggest we try to shift
> the discussion about Chasm and standardized array interop back to this
> list, where the interested parties can see it, and where it gets
> archived for posterity.
>
> To summarize recent discussions amongst CCAers about this topic:
>
> 1) Chasm has fallen behind in support for the latest compiler versions
>    on a number of platforms, especially 64-bit.  This is an immediate
>    issue that needs to be addressed.
>
> 2) The Babel folks need to understand whether what's been proposed for
>    F2008 really covers everything they've been getting from Chasm thus
>    far. (Also, I guess the previous draft stuff that some vendors have
>    already implemented.)
>
> 3) Assuming the F2008 stuff is an appropriate replacement, Babel needs
>    to extended to support it -- testing the compiler for support in
>    autoconf, and generating the appropriate code.
>
> 4) We need for Chasm to be maintained until users upgrade to compiler
>    versions supporting the F2008 features.  Just because a site has a
>    compiler version that does support the needed features, doesn't
>    mean the users are actually using that version.  Many sites,
>    especially large centers, maintain multiple compiler versions
>    simultaneously.
>
> So I think we need to figure out an approach that covers these bases.
>
> Are there any other major users of Chasm, besides Babel/CCA, who we
> should try to draw into this discussion?
> --
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