[MPI3 Fortran] Deprecate mpif.h?

[Supalov, Alexander]

Thanks. I think there's some difference between "deprecating" and "freezing". The former implies people will have to move to the mpi3 module once. The latter means they can "just" sit tight and forget about MPI-3. Hence the higher presumed impact of the deprecation.

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Subject: Re: [MPI3 Fortran] Deprecate mpif.h?



Supalov, Alexander wrote:
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> 
> Now, imagine we deprecate the mpif.h/mpi module and add the mpi3 module. It look like we'll upset 90% of the users and prevent other 7% from going to MPI-3. Makes 97%. Bad.
> 
> Imagine we freeze mpif.h/mpi module and add mpi3 module. We'll probably hit 7% of the users who would otherwise be willing to try MPI-3. Not deadly but still painful.
> 

In this context, I believe that "deprecate" and "freeze" mean the same 
thing.  Thus, there is not a distinction between these two cases.

Cheers,
Bill

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