[Users] about udb.pm/mdb.pm in simfactory

[Ian Hinder]

On 13 Apr 2010, at 18:02, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2010, at 9:47 , Ian Hinder wrote:
>
>> On 13 Apr 2010, at 10:24, Jian Tao wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Erik,
>>>
>>> I noticed that users are supposed to make the following changes to
>>> udb.pm.
>>> Edit udb.pm and
>>>
>>>   * replace YOUR_LOGIN with your username on Queen Bee
>>>   * YOUR at EMAIL.ADDRESS with your usual email address
>>>   * YOUR_ALLOCATION with your project allocation on Queen Bee
>>>
>>> Although I believe that users who follow the instruction won't have
>>> trouble to locate where to change, I am wondering if it would be
>>> easier to have a file similar to Cactus parameter file to store
>>> pure key value pairs ?
>>> e.g.
>>> user="jtao"
>>>
>>> The same goes for mdb.pm.
>>
>> Yes, this is being worked on.  Erik has done a lot of work to support
>> this new format in SimFactory, but as far as I know it is not yet
>> finished or tested.
>
>
> Michael Thomas implemented the new database format over spring  
> break.  He did so while re-structuring and re-writing SimFactory in  
> Python.  He is not finished yet, and you can look at the current  
> state in the "py" subdirectory of SimFactory.  It supports the  
> "sync" command only so far.
>
> For our current needs, we can tell people where in the file to look,  
> as in "near the bottom".

I'm confused - does this mean that the ini file support is not going  
into the perl version?

-- 
Ian Hinder
ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de

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