[MPIWG Fortran] Draft chapter for discussion today

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

Perfect.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquyres at cisco.com>
> To: "MPI-WG Fortran working group" <mpiwg-fortran at lists.mpi-forum.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 12:10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [MPIWG Fortran] Draft chapter for discussion today
> 
> On Feb 3, 2014, at 4:02 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseifner at hlrs.de>
> wrote:
> 
> >> If Chapter 15 is to be renamed, I would agree that 17.1.4 should
> >> move.  But I'm not sure this is a good idea.
> > 
> > We used already in MPI-2.2 the "Chapter 15. Deprecated Functions"
> > in the general way "Deprecated Interfaces" when we added
> > the total C++ bindings to this chapter, i.e. all C++ constants,
> > functions, ,... .
> 
> This is a good point.
> 
> > To make the life easy, we should rename Chapter 15 into
> > "Chapter 15. Deprecated Interfaces". This would be consistent to
> > "Chapter 16. Removed Interfaces".
> > The normal text (i.e., text outside of Chap. 15+16) should
> > include as few deprecated features as possible.
> 
> I see in MPI-2.2 chapter 15 a very brief blurb about how the C++
> bindings are deprecated.  We then also put "deprecated" next to
> every binding throughout the text (and a few other select places,
> IIRC).
> 
> So for mpif.h/MPI-4, I propose a compromise:
> 
> 1. Rename chapter 15 as you suggest.
> 
> 2. Put a brief blurb in 15 saying that mpif.h is deprecated, similar
> to what we did for C++ in MPI-2.2.  I.e., do not move 17.1.4 or
> other giant blocks of text to chapter 15.
> 
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