[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #619: launching jobs with simfactory without necessarily syncing the sources

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#619: launching jobs with simfactory without necessarily syncing the sources
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  Reporter:  anonymous    |       Owner:  eschnett                   
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                        
  Priority:  optional     |   Milestone:                             
 Component:  SimFactory   |     Version:                             
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  simfactory remote directory
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Comment (by knarf):

 You are right Ian, but if I understand correctly, Luca tries to submit
 from a remote machine - his laptop. I might have created that confusion in
 the first place, thinking along the same lines as you now Ian. Simfactory
 does figure out the right directory when invoked from within a Cactus
 tree, at least I am pretty sure it does. From remote however, it does not
 have a good way to determine where Cactus is actually installed - and it
 might even be installed in multiple places.

 In this case the only option is to tell simfactory. One possibility is of
 course to change the machine entry directly, but the better, and intended
 option is to change the corresponding entry in the configuration file
 defs.local.ini. This file isn't stored in the svn repository and cannot
 come into conflict when updating simfactory itself, and it is much harder
 to accidentally commit such user-specific entries.

 This only leaves the question open what the simfactory default should be.
 At the moment it is probably just the preference of the original author of
 the configuration, and it is up to the bulk of the users of that
 particular machine to agree on something and request it to be the default.

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