[MPIWG Fortran] Draft chapter for discussion today

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

Jeff,

Only a minor detail in your attached pdf on p19:24 and p683:20:
Please, can you interchange the sequence: first mpi then deprecated mpif.h
All other locations are already done.

Best regards
Rolf

----- 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 12:39:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [MPIWG Fortran] Draft chapter for discussion today
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> 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > ----- 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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