[Q-e-developers] ELPA version support

[Paolo Giannozzi]

The reason why a tarball of ELPA was included into QE is historical, I
think: some time ago it wasn't possibile to download it directly.

Paolo

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Filippo SPIGA <
filippo.spiga at quantum-espresso.org> wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> we can extend the support to ELPA to newer versions, it is not a problem
> (apart running few validations but I suspect it is not a big issue or a
> time consuming activity). We do not maintain ELPA directly, it is an
> optional dependency. So IMHO, it is much better to remove completely ELPA
> from the QE distribution and rely on externally installed versions linked
> to QE during the configure step.
>
> Regards
>
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> > On Feb 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi QE developers,
> >
> > if I read archive/ELPA-0.3.tar.gz and install/extlibs_makefile right,
> > the ELPA version QE supports is pretty ancient.
> >
> > Is there support planned for more current versions, like 2015.05 or
> > 2015.11?
> >
> > E.g. Debian and Ubuntu are shipping 2015.05 currently, so I had to
> > disable ELPA support for now (we are not using the duplicated tarballs
> > in archive/).
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michael
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