mpich3 -> mpich rename opinions?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 16, 2012, at 14:58, Eric A. Borisch wrote:

> I'm considering updating the 'mpich' portfile to version 3.0rc1; this is currently available as 'mpich3.'
> 
> Background: The upstream project has changed naming conventions; they previously had mpich (now at 1.2.7p1) and mpich2 (at 1.5). With the implementation of the MPI-3 standard (mpich2 was MPI-2, etc.) they've gone back to the mpich name, and they've requested that our (my) mpich3 port replace the (nomaintainer) mpich port for consistency.
> 
> There are no ports that currently depend on 'mpich' .. any other concerns with making this change (and setting a replaced_by in mpich3 for the next year before pruning it?)

There is one port that depends on mpich: gnudatalanguage

But your plan sounds good to me.

Will the mpich2 port survive or will it also be replaced by the mpich port? There are many ports depending on mpich2.