Although I am still use it, I am not against any proposed changes.
I guess the idea behind this is that explicit is better than implicit, which I agree. As long as any explicit settings replace instead of merging the implicit ones, we shall not have problems.
When one doesn't set any options explicitly, he/she shall be aware that Cactus is doing some magic (.cactus/config is involved)
Regards, Jian
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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