[mvapich-discuss] version number question

[Dhabaleswar Panda]

Hi Brent,

Thanks for your question.

Yes, `a' stands for the alpha release. It is not RC phase yet. As you can
find from the release note and CHANGELOG, this release is basically 1.7 GA
version + initial support for NVIDIA GPU with IB + a few bug-fixes. This
is primarily targeted for users of GPU+IB clusters to experiment with the
new GPU-GPU design.  Many more features and enhancements are planned to be
added for the 1.8 release. The RC version will include these enhancements
and features during the next few months.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

DK


> I saw the recent announcement of 1.8a1 and had a question.  The
> announcement does not explicitly say it, but does the 'a' in the
> version number imply an alpha release?  I see that 'successive 1.8-RC
> releases ... will be available in the near future', so that implies to
> me that this new release is not to the RC phase yet - right?  Is there
> a methodology to the version number scheme documented somewhere?
>
> Sorry if this is documented somewhere already, but my googling didn't
> turn anything up and I didn't see anything in the FAQ that addressed
> this.

> Thanks,
>
> Brent
>
>