[Swift-devel] log naming

[Tiberiu Stef-Praun]

I was not complaining about the fact that we have changes, I was
mostly observing that nothing (to my knowledge) is currently
guaranteed to stay the same.
Do we have feature freezes planned some time soon ?

Tibi

On 9/13/07, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:41 -0500, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:
> > This means that I have to redo the Aphasia experiment recording tool !
> > We should all have a discussion, and make decisions that we stick to
> > in the future.
>
> If you can identify the things that need to be discussed, sure. But
> counting on nothing ever changing in Swift contradicts the fact that
> it's in development.
>
> On the other hand, this change is not final. If you can sort it out with
> Nika and everybody else, I can change it back. To me they're both almost
> equally good.
>
> > Probably the main topic of this discussion will be the VDC, what goes
> > into it, and how it will support lightweight tracking tools such as
> > the ones that I and Nika are putting together.
> >
> > Tibi
> >
> >
> > On 9/13/07, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > > Done.
> > >
> > > bash-3.1$ swift 001-echo.swift
> > > Swift v0.2-dev r1213 (modified locally)
> > >
> > > RunID: 20070913-1234-zp0u8vjc
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:15 -0500, Veronika Nefedova wrote:
> > > > that sounds like a good solution. As long as I could grep/sort by the
> > > > date - that'll help me a lot. I wouldn't have to type'ls -l | grep
> > > > "2007-07-05 11" whenever I need to find any particular run.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Nika
> > > >
> > > > On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Having exclusively the date there might cause conflicts. How about
> > > > > something like this:
> > > > > MolDyn-20070705-1149-abcdef.log?
> > > > >
> > > > > So there would be the date, in a more readable form (it is already
> > > > > included very cryptically in the current scheme), and some smaller
> > > > > random number.
> > > > >
> > > > > Mihael
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:20 -0500, Veronika Nefedova wrote:
> > > > >> Hi,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I am curious at how hard it would be to change the way the logs and
> > > > >> temp dirs are named in swift? Right now its a random number being
> > > > >> attached to the name of the .swift file. I do not find it really
> > > > >> helpful when analyzing the log. Would it be possible to attach a
> > > > >> timestamp instead of a random number?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> For example, right now I have a log file named this way:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> MolDyn-xgv2nuncojno1.log.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> And I would like to have the name to be this:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>   MolDyn-2007-07-05 _11_49.log (or any other standard date/time
> > > > >> format - I do not care about the actual format). All I care is to be
> > > > >> able to find the log of the run done on a particular day/time.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Note, that this is not just the log naming. The remote working
> > > > >> directories also have the same suffix -- changing it to a timestamp
> > > > >> would help to locate the remote directories for debugging purposes.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> It doesn't look like a big change to do so I am curious how hard it
> > > > >> would be to implement it?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Thanks,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Nika
> > > > >>
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