<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
>IF you are using the release version,<br>
> the viewing option is -da_view. The -dm_view is the new version which we<br>
> are about to release.<br>
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This upgrade interface really sucks. We should either recognize (and<br>
warn?) for old options or error for old options. But silently ignoring<br>
them makes upgrading configuration files a nightmare of mystery behavior.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>We could have a deprecation interface that checks each option on input to the DB,</div><div class="gmail_extra">compares to a list of deprecated options, and gives the replacement in the error</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">message. It would have to look for suffixes I guess.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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