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

[Mihael Hategan]

Too much effort for too little gain.

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 14:51 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 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.
> > 
>