Opened 3 years ago

Closed 3 years ago

#62789 closed defect (duplicate)

openmpi: remove subports for clang 3.3 and 3.4

Reported by: mascguy (Christopher Nielsen) Owned by: mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: openmpi

Description

Presently, openmpi provides subports for the following clang 3.x versions:

  • 3.3
  • 3.4
  • 3.7

That's in addition to clang 5 through 11.

The clang 3.x subports have the following usage statistics, over the past 365 days:

  • openmpi-clang33 - zero installs
  • openmpi-clang34 - zero installs
  • openmpi-clang37 - one install

Of note, sibling MPI port mpich doesn't provide subports for clang 3.x versions; only for 5 through 11.

It's suggested that we remove the subports for clang 3.3 and 3.4, given the usage stats.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)

As a quick follow-up: While we should continue supporting a wide range of compiler versions, the sheer number of combinations we provide is almost overwhelming.

If we can remove a few of the oldest compilers, that would help a bit with maintaining this port.

comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Removing these subports may well be the right move, but I wouldn't use the stats to justify it given the small sample size and the "long tail" nature of the data.

comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)

Resolution: duplicate
Status: assignedclosed

Work related to pruning the target compiler list for both openmpi and mpich is being tracked by issue:62807. Closing as duplicate.

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