[Users] .cactus/config

[Erik Schnetter]

We can either remove support for it (ignore it in Cactus, maybe with a
warning), or add an option to Cactus that we use from within Simfactory
that makes Cactus ignore this file, without a warning.

-erik


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:

>
> On 30 May 2013, at 17:31, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
>
> I suggest to disable ~/.cactus/config, at least when Simfactory is used.
>
>
> Do you mean that SimFactory should abort if it is there, or that we should
> ask people not to use .cactus/config?  People might not remember that they
> have it there, especially as it is a hidden directory.
>
>
> -erik
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If there is a ~/.cactus/config file, and you also specify options=… to
>> make, how is Cactus supposed to respond?  Does it merge the content of the
>> two files, or take one over the other?  I suspect that it is merging them.
>>  In that case, I think simfactory should complain very loudly if there is a
>> ~/.cactus/config file, as the options you are using will be a mixture of
>> the optionlist configured for the machine and the one in ~/.cactus/config.
>>  I'm still dubious about the benefit of having ~/.cactus/config.  I think
>> it is used rarely enough by the main developers that it probably isn't
>> tested well, and issues like this tend to get overlooked.
>>
>> One example of where this causes confusion is if you have MPI = … in
>> ~/.cactus/config, and MPI_DIR = in your optionlist.  The MPI thorn
>> complains about MPI being set even though it isn't set in your optionlist,
>> so the error message makes no sense to the user.
>>
>>   --
>> Ian Hinder
>> http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder
>>
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> Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
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> Ian Hinder
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Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/
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