<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 11 Feb 2014, at 15:30, Steven R. Brandt <<a href="mailto:sbrandt@cct.lsu.edu">sbrandt@cct.lsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/10/2014 11:07 AM, Roland Haas
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<pre wrap="">Present: Peter, Steve, Roland, Erik, Josh, Matt, Philipp
* Erik, Ian and Barry are working on simfactory 3 which modularizes
simfactory and includes facilities to build ExternalLibraries outside of
Cactus
** downloads source code of external libraries only when required
** contact Ian Hinder for access to source code
** Steve asked if the modules in simfactory would be useful as a basis
to replace the main Cactus make file with a script
** Erik said that so far simfactory 3 treats Cactus as a black box</pre></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>SimFactory 3 supports multiple user-defined "applications", of which Cactus is just one. As such, Cactus-specific knowledge is compartmentalised. In my opinion, simfactory should know as little about cactus as possible; we will add convenience features on top of the cactus build system because the cactus build system lacks them, but this is a pragmatic solution – ideally the cactus build system would be improved and this extra layer could be removed from simfactory, but that is more complicated as the cactus make system is quite "involved".</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><blockquote cite="mid:52F90737.8080709@physics.gatech.edu" type="cite">
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It might be useful if SF3 automatically detected when the relevant<br>
optionlist had changed.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, we have decided to do that, and also for the thornlist. It was a design decision of versions 1 and 2 that the options should be explicitly imported to the configuration, rather than pointing the configuration to the external file, but I think this leads to too much confusion.</div></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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