[Users] Enhancements to Multipole

[Ian Hinder]

On 17 Dec 2010, at 22:09, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> Let's add the new feature first, and not try to do too many things at
> once. For example, we haven't even tried the HDF5 output yet. There is
> no urgency to switch defaults now.
> 
> Let's apply the patch now (or once it follows the Cactus conventions
> for truncating output files), and then see what happens. Let's not
> hold up the patch with this discussion.

I agree.  I have made the change requested and the modified patch series is attached (only the last patch has changed).  OK to commit once the flesh patch has been committed?

> 
> -erik
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:42:42AM +0100, Ian Hinder wrote:
>>> This is a good idea in any case.  But I don't think that activating or deactivating a thorn should change the output behaviour of another thorn - it is too unexpected.
>> 
>> Isn't that what would be introduced with the optional dependency on
>> HDF5? One could see at this way: by default hdf5 is used, but there is
>> also a fallback to ascii in case someone doesn't have hdf5 for whatever
>> reason - so that the thorn is still usable. No parameter file would have
>> to be changed for example. The simulation would still run.
>> 
>>> Do people use the released version for production runs?  I don't.  But then, I also don't routinely update my main Cactus tree.  There is little enough development going on in critical areas that this doesn't seem important.
>> 
>> Right. Therefore I think it would be ok to change the default behavior
>> in the development version, as long as we don't forget to mention this
>> in the release notes.

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