[Swift-devel] Use case and examples needed to avoid large directories

[Michael Wilde]

Right, I agree - thats what I said in my message yesterday.
But we have to deal with (ie wrap or change) programs that only accept 
their list of files to process on the command line.

Most such cases can readily be re-wraped in a shell script assuming the 
app is associative.  If its not, it needs to be recoded to either be 
associative or to take an unlimited number of files from a list-file.

The question is mainly whether to let such wrappers be coded in swift, 
or require that they be done in an external scripting language.

Related to this: I'm going to file an enhancement request for 
discussion, to permit scripting language code to be specified "in line" 
in an app { } declaration.

This would be handy in that external-language wrapper code can be 
written right in the swift program, to make it easier to see whats being 
  done, and in fact to code many simple processing scripts without 
needing any tc.data entries.

- Mike


On 9/29/07 2:36 PM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
>> - cmds lines too bug for condor
>> - cmd lines to big for linux
> 
> commandlines are not the place to be sending large file files - if they're 
> large enough to be a problem on the comandline we should be dumping them 
> into a file and using that.
>