Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [1.61.0] Master branch is closed
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-26 14:01:07



> On Apr 26, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:36 AM, alainm <alain.miniussi_at_oca.eu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 25/04/2016 21:12, Rene Rivera wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]>
>>> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir.prus_at_[hidden]>
>>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/23/2016 10:02 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It’d be nice if serialization worked with MPI for the release, though
>>>>>>
>>>>> I’m not sure it’s a show stopper.
>>>>
>>>>> What is the actual impact of this problem? E.g. which percentage of MPI
>>>>>
>>>> users will find their code
>>>>
>>>>> no longer compiling?
>>>>>
>>>> Fair question, no idea really. I know that Boost MPI's used on multiple
>>>> projects where I work, though it’s easy enough for us to just skip using
>>>> the 1.61 release to avoid breaking our MPI serialization code.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if my ignorance of how MPI shows :-) .. How much of MPI is usable
>>> with this problem? Is it usable at all? Is it partially usable?
>>>
>>> No part of Boost MPI is usable, meaning no code built on top of Boost.MPI
>> will compile.
>>
>> Just tried.
>>
>
> Thanks for the info.. But given that we don't have *any* test results with
> MPI passing (i.e. nothing on develop yet).. I'm afraid it's going to stay
> broken this release.

I just applied a patch that should get all of graph, graph_parallel, and MPI passing on develop. Tomorrow should be clean, if you can wait that long.

Noel