[Scilab-Dev] PVM

[Collette Yann]

Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
>> And what about to put the pvm sources into the scilab tree and compile 
>> this sources if configure can't find the pvm .so library ?
>> Like in scilab-4.1.2 ?
>>     
> No way :p
> I explain you why.
>
> First, if you start to embed third party sources into your source tree,
> where will it end ? 
> You know our dependency list [1]; why should I put PVM and not FFTW,
> matio or PCRE ?
> (btw, I am too unhappy about having lapack & blas into the source tree
> to add more dep into Scilab)
>
> Second, when you incorporate third party code, you are more entitle to
> edit the sources when you find a bug, instead of submitting a bug report
> and waiting for the new upstream version (and consequently having the
> risk of divergence.
>
> Third, you have to integrate the source into your compilation process.
> Autotools being everything but standard and straightforward, you have to
> redo what they have done.
>
> Have I been convincing enough ? :)
>
>
>   
Wow, how convincing you are !!!
>> By the way, PVM is working really fine with the patch 
>>     
> The patch from JPC ?
> I have to apply it in the trunk.
>
>   
Serge Steer has already submitted a simpler patch into scilab 5. So, 
don't need to apply the JPC one.
>> and I am about to 
>> have a parallel genetic algorithm (thanks to a student).
>>     
> Cool, I am interested to see the result !
>
>   
Me too, but, you know, students ....

> Sylvestre
> [1] http://wiki.scilab.org/Dependencies_of_Scilab_5.X 
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