[Bug 246387] Review Request: libibcommon - OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand management common library

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Summary: Review Request: libibcommon - OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand management common library


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246387





------- Additional Comments From dledford at redhat.com  2007-07-03 21:47 EST -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > That can be added, but needs to be added by upstream.
> 
> I assume you're referring to the changelog.

Correct.

>  The problem is that the spec is
> part of Fedora, not the upstream source.

Yes, but the upstream maintainer is working on becoming a Fedora contributor and
would like to be the maintainer of the Fedora package for this library.  At that
point, any distinction between upstream and Fedora is moot.

In any case, I can add a placeholder changelog entry.

> > Yes, www.openfabrics.org is the right URL.
> 
> OK, just checking.
> 
> > As for the git snapshot, I created a make.dist script for the person that
> > maintains this repo,
> 
> Well, as long as you're willing to deal with the pain of dealing with
> unversioned upstream source, there's no problem with it.

It's really not that bad in this case.

> > As for the static library, that's a common request of the people that make use
> > of this code.
> 
> It just seems like a really poor idea for anyone to link statically against
> moving-target development code.  Still, it's OK as long as nothing in Fedora
> actually links against those static libs.

They do it.  I guess when a job takes weeks to complete on 1000s of nodes, they
*really* care about their performance.  They also do it precisely *because* the
code is still moving.  When they find a version they know works well, they may
statically link their longer running cluster apps so they know they won't crash
with the next library update, while letting shorter lived apps try things out. 
In any case, I don't use any of them in the various packages I'm building for
Fedora, they are just used by end users.

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