On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> One issue that I consider important is: Is there going to be support
> for it after the release? I ask that because after a new version is
> released, if people start using it and running into problems with it,
> they will expect some sort of help... "If they released a new version
> then there must be someone working on it, etc..."
>
> It did happen to me quite recently to have problems trying to install
> LAM/MPI in Cygwin, which is listed as a supported platform. As I run
> into trouble, I tried to get help and noticed that it was quite hard,
> specially since most developers had already moved on to OpenMPI. I
> finally went ahead and moved to OpenMPI myself. (Still have trouble,
> but at least there I have someone to talk to...)
>
> So, unless there's some plan to keep supporting it, I'd suggest *not*
> to bring a new release, except for occasional bugfixes which will
> benefit whoever is already using it.
There will be a new release (which is basically just bug fixes) with the
minimal amount of support there has been for the last couple of years.
We will, however, remove any reference to supporting Cygwin :).
Brian
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Brian Barrett
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