[ofw] RE: OpenSM 3.3.3 available for interested parties.

[Smith, Stan]

Fab Tillier wrote:
> Hi Stan
>
> Smith, Stan wrote on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 at 08:49:25
>
>>> I don't think we may ask customers to check out old Opensm and to
>>> build on their own. I don't think we can test that complicate
>>> program as opensm enough as to be sure that it will work not worse
>>> than the previous one in all situations.
>>
>> I strongly agree!
>
> I agree that customers shouldn't have to build things.  That said,
> what's to prevent them from taking the built opensm.exe from a
> previous release and running it?  The IBAL interface didn't change
> between these builds, so there should be no issue.
>
> That way it is clear that they're using a different, deprecated
> version of OpenSM.
>
> -Fab

Hello,
  Customer orientation is the driving force here.

A customer may or may not have easily obtainable immediate access to a previous opensm version.
Why not anticipate the unlikely but possible situation (pre-paid insurance if you will) and provide an immediate solution?

Holding a cursor/mouse-point over the opensm.exe file will reveal it's OpenSM version, so there is no confusion. Version display functionality is in the 3.3.3 opensm version and will be retro-fitted to current opensm.

On a slightly different vector, would you be willing to test drive the new opensm on your large in-house cluster?

Stan.