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

[Erik Schnetter]

On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:12 , Ian Hinder wrote:

> 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?

Oops.  This is correct, we decided not to do that.  Using the inifile  
format seemed not urgent, and there are several other long-requested  
features that require some restructuring of the current code.

-erik

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