Please package boost-mpi and boost-mpi-dev
Bug #582420 reported by
Casey Greene
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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boost1.42 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
boost-mpi and boost-mpi-dev used to be included. They are no longer included. Bug 531973 was resolved by removing them from boost-defaults, but even if they are not in boost-defaults it would be helpful to have them available in ubuntu.
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For good or ill MPI is the defacto standard solution for handling parallel computations in C, C++ and Fortran. For good or ill Boost is the de facto standard library of extensions to C++. Doing any parallleism using C++ will therefore involve Boost.MPI -- including after the C++0x standard comes out and everyone can use futures and asynchronous function call. Ubuntu has ejected the libboost-mpi-dev package and all related Boost.MPI packages. There is therfore now no way of installing Boost.MPI on Ubuntu via packages. Scott Kitterman wrote in https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ boost-defaults/ +bug/531973, point 15 that there is an objective rationale to this. Debian however are not following this rationale, they retain the Boost.MPI packages, so either have found a way of solving the issue Scott outlines or have chosen not to be bound by that issue.
Unless Ubuntu provides some way of installing Boost.MPI from packages then everyone who uses C++ and Boost.MPI will have to cease using Ubuntu and switch to Debian, or one of the RPM-based distributions.