#1565: change default of IOUtil::out_save_parameters to true --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: optional | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by barry.wardell):
Replying to [comment:3 rhaas]:
I am not sure if Ian's Mathematica based postprocessing system parses
parfiles or not. If it does it may benefit from being able to parse the better formatted "/Parameters and Global Attributes/All Parameters" dataset instead (since it already has all substitutions performed, comments removed, special characters escaped).
SimulationTools currently parses the parameter file to infer a lot of required information about a simulation. It doesn't look at the "/Parameters and Global Attributes/All Parameters" dataset at all. It would certainly be nice to have a more robust system, where all metadata related to a simulation is stored in a standard and easily parseable way (such a system was proposed in #1370 - there is a distinction between metadata and parameters, but I assume it is the former that Roland would really like).
I am not convinced that storing parameters as a dataset in each HDF5 file is the right way to go. Would it not be better to have a single place where all simulation metadata is stored?