Recent changes to atlas-subprojects

dynamic object coordinator

R. Clint Whaley — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:53:26 -0000

I'd like to find someone to put in charge of keeping ATLAS's dynamic libraries working. Would test new releases using package that demands shared libs, and work with me to fix any problems.

ATLAS on Windows coordinator

R. Clint Whaley — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:56:55 -0000

I need someone who is interested in ATLAS on Windows to take the lead in keeping ATLAS installing relatively smoothly on Windows. Will need to come to a pretty good understanding of the configure process in order to recommend needed changes to me.

I would start with simple installs, and build from there:
(1) Get serial ATLAS to install with all-gnu compilers in 32 bit cygwin
(2) Get parallel ATLAS to install with all-gnu compilers & pthreads in 32 bit cygwin
(3) Get serial ATLAS to install with gnu for kernels, but MSVC++ for interface compilers
(4) Get parallel code to work with windows threads & gnu compiler, despite gnu ABI violation

This would get the standard package working. We could then look at mechanisms to get a 64-bit install, which is currently impossible in cygwin (eg., we might need MinGW or something).

I simply don't have time to wrestle with Windows, so it may be literally a year or more before I can address this issue myself.

Prebuilt binary coordinator

R. Clint Whaley — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:57:34 -0000

Many users are unwilling/unable to install ATLAS from source. If we could come up with a system that allows ATLAS users/developers to contribute pre-built binary libraries, and someone else was willing to coordinate it, this would be a great boon to a huge number of users.

The coordinator(s) would need to design a process for submission, with any required rules, including possibly some QA-oriented ones. They would also need to post them to sourceforge and keep them up-to-date. If it worked to add various packagings like rpm, .deb, we might be able to work with some distributions.