[Mpi-22] Ticket #46: Add const Keyword to the C bindings-implementation

[Underwood, Keith D]

That is incorrect.  There was an objection to changing #46 and claiming that it already had its first vote.  Brian is proposing that you bundle the fixes in a new proposal and have a first reading again.  It sounded like there were yet more additions that he was proposing.

Keith

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mpi-22-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:mpi-22-bounces_at_lists.mpi-
>forum.org] On Behalf Of Erez Haba
>Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:32 PM
>To: MPI 2.2
>Subject: Re: [Mpi-22] Ticket #46: Add const Keyword to the C bindings-
>implementation
>
>Since we already passed first vote, there was an objection to that in the
>last meeting.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mpi-22-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:mpi-22-bounces_at_lists.mpi-
>forum.org] On Behalf Of Barrett, Brian W
>Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:28 PM
>To: MPI 2.2
>Subject: Re: [Mpi-22] Ticket #46: Add const Keyword to the C bindings-
>implementation
>
>On 3/19/09 16:00 , "Erez Haba" <erezh_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> As to rushing this in, I'm curious, this ticket is there for over a year;
>> already implemented twice and tested by two different bodies. Is this
>really
>> rushing it in?
>>
>> As to the procedural issues. This ticket is one of the first tickets that
>we
>> had in the system, and of-course as the mpi forum body we did learn a
>thing or
>> two in that process, unfortunately, first implemented with that ticket.
>So yes
>> there would be issues.  I think that we can resolve these 'issues' but
>puting
>> dependency on passing this ticket given that we accept the other two
>> corrections to the ticket.
>
>We're not too late to submit a new proposal to 2.2, as I understand it.
>Why
>not do the right thing, pull #46, #129, and #130, bundle them into a new
>proposal, get comments, and remove the procedural issues?  I think the
>hesitancy to do this only adds to my worry about this proposal, and is part
>of the view people have of "rushing it it".
>
>Brian
>
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>   Brian W. Barrett
>   Dept. 1423: Scalable System Software
>   Sandia National Laboratories
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