[MPIWG Fortran] Draft chapter for discussion today

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

Ok, here's a final copy -- see the new section in the Deprecated Interfaces chapter.

I'll make a ticket for this, and send it to the mpi-forum list so that we're well-ahead of the T-2 week notice.




On Feb 4, 2014, at 3:31 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseifner at hlrs.de> wrote:

> Perfect.
>
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>> 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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