[Users] .cactus/config

Bruno Coutinho Mundim bcmsma at astro.rit.edu
Thu May 30 11:09:12 CDT 2013


I use .cactus/config too. What's your suggestion for replacement if
someone doesn't want to use simfactory?

Thanks,
Bruno.

On 05/30/2013 05:54 PM, Yosef Zlochower wrote:
> 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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