[MPIWG Fortran] Draft chapter for discussion today

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

I thought the wording in those 2 locations was already fine, but I don't have a strong opinion, so I'll change it.


On Feb 4, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseifner at hlrs.de> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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