From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add python-drmaa. Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:31:42 +0200 Message-ID: <874mozegk1.fsf@mango.localdomain> References: <87zj6rtxrj.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdPIq-0008C8-28 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:31:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdPIl-0000ml-Pz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:31:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zj6rtxrj.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> attached is a patch for python-drmaa. The tests are disabled because >> libdrmaa.so is needed, which is usually provided by the cluster >> installation. Users are normally expected to set DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH t= o >> the path of libdrmaa.so, e.g. >> >> DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH=3D"/opt/sge/lib/lx-amd64/libdrmaa.so" >> >> I don't think we need to package all of Grid Engine to have use for >> python-drmaa, but I'd like to hear what others think about this. > > What=E2=80=99s DRMAA? Is it free? Part of =E2=80=9CGrid Engine=E2=80=9D= ? DRMAA =3D Distributed Resource Management Application API. The various Grid Engine implementations (Sun/Oracle Grid Engine, Univa Grid Engine, Open Grid Scheduler) come with a library providing this API. At least Open Grid Scheduler is free software. ~~ Ricardo