<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 22:39, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
AMS could be ok. It doesn't care about structure.</blockquote></div><br><div>The program has to expose the correct structure. Some fields are normally computed and thrown away, so they would have to be formalized a bit in order to snoop with AMS. The "help" strings are also not centralized like with options so it would be harder to explain what a parameter in -pc_view actually meant.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Should we make a "rich" viewer that has the object, name, type, and help string for every piece of information being exposed? Then we could "publish" this information for AMS and also optionally put it into a file or other viewer for anyone who wasn't using AMS to read that data?</div>