[Users] .cactus/config

[Yosef Zlochower]

Hi,

  I still .cactus/config  I find it convenient. Could we have 
.cactus/config be the default if no other config file is specified,
and have it ignored if one is?



On 05/30/2013 11:51 AM, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:44:58AM -0400, Erik Schnetter wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I asked on this mailing list earlier whether this file is still used,
> and only one user replied (Jian Tao). I think we can work with him to
> make his setup work without.
>
> Any option which ignores the hidden file in one case and not in the
> other is only adding confusion. This file has been the reason for quite
> a bit of confusion in the past, including myself before I discontinued
> to use it. I suggest to remove support for it completely, and complain
> loudly if such a file exists, to prevent surprises for users.
>
> Frank
>
>
>
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