[Swift-devel] remote file/directory stuff (bug 22)

[Mihael Hategan]

If you can make this translate into something like vdl:(in|
out)appmapping(var, path, dest), preferably after the stagein/stageout
directives, I can probably make it work.

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:22 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > Right. This would be the "application mapper".
> > Now, there are a few things here:
> > We may also want to do the same to the input, because some even more
> > twisted apps will not even accept that as a parameter. So:
> > (file k, file m, file n) myapp(file l) {
> >   app{
> >     l>"input.txt";
> >     myapp;
> >     k<"output.crd"
> >     m<"output.prd"
> >     n<"output.rtf"
> >   }
> > }
> 
> so something like the above syntax, sufficient to address Nika's cases, is 
> probably the way to go for bug 22, without necessarily implementing more 
> complicated stuff like arrays below.
> 
> That should give us a feel for how the concept works in practice too.
> 
> > This may become a little trickier when inputs (or even outputs) are
> > arrays, so we may need nicer schemes:
> > (file o) myapp(file i[]){
> >   app{
> >     i[x=*] > "input"+$1; (or something like that)
> >     myapp;
> >     ...
> >   }
> > }
>