Aaron Blakeman

In general, I think shipping static libraries is frowned upon. The [fedora build guidelines](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries_2) and the [RHEL developer guide](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Developer_Guide/libraries.html#lib.compatibility.static) **strongly** discourage the use of static libraries. Looking at the Fedora...

In OpenHPC 1.3.9 the opencoarrays version is getting bumped to 2.8.0 (EG. #1067). I went ahead and installed the current OBS build and it seems like `caf` should be working...

Right now openmpi4 is targeted for the 2.0 release. There are a few more 2.0 highlights covered in the [meeting notes](https://github.com/openhpc/ohpc/wiki/files/OpenHPC-TSC-Board-20191023.pdf) from the last TSC meeting. I'm not sure specifically...