Greetings, and thanks!
Went over the diffs, and I agree, there does not look to be anything
to break backward binary compatibility here.
Separately, I understand you do not have a unified release html page,
and that it might be difficult to set one up. Would it be possible to
get ftp access to the download area?
Take care,
Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]> writes:
> On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> >> We've actually *never* guaranteed binary compatibility between
> >> releases. We just don't have the time and resources do it,
> >> unfortunately. That being said, MPI applications *usually* will be ok
> >> with the upgrades unless we make major changes to:
> >>
> >> - mpi.h
> >> - the inlined C++ bindings
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > What file(s) specify these?
>
> It's all the stuff that is under $includedir/mpi2cxx/*. These things
> are statically compiled/linked into the user applications. If those
> change from version to version, it can break a user's app.
>
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