Re: [mpi-21] ABI (was: Call for MPI 2.2 and 3.0...)

[Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> > No they don't!  This is the Big Lie of an ABI.
>
> Jeff, please don't say things like this. My original presentation
> about an ABI correctly identified testing as something which is only
> kinda partly solved by an ABI.

Regardless of the fact that you correctly originally identified  
testing as still-an-open-issue, many others have somehow latched on to  
the claim that an ABI "reduces the ISV testing matrix" (I have heard  
this claim multiple times; it keeps popping up -- like dandelions in  
my lawn).  Not only is it wrong, it makes an MPI ABI seem *much* more  
attractive than what it really is.  So this perception needs to be  
utterly and totally squashed so that an ABI can be debated on its true  
technical merits -- not false perceptions.

I'm sorry if you thought I was attacking you.

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems