#731: simfactory does not expand @MACHINE@ in the SubmitScript if submitted with option --submitscriipt -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: alibeck | Owner: eschnett Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: SimFactory | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
Simfactory should really abort with an error message if an option is used that doesn't match the command given.
One of the main points of Simfactory is to be safe and easy to use. That implies that it shouldn't have many options that let people modify its behaviour in subtle ways. I would rather have a discussion on what a good behaviour is, and make this the default.
I don't know what kind of testing you mean that is currently painful. If you mean testing new submission scripts, then you can do this by directly editing either the copy stored with the executable or the copy stored with the simulation; once you have something working, you clean it up and commit it. Compare this to editing a makefile directly within the source tree; Cactus doesn't have an option to override certain makefiles while building either.
There is also a feature request to make Simfactory automatically update submit scripts etc. from the MDB.