[Swift-devel] simple executable staging

[Glen Hocky]

This could be potentially very useful for data analysis esp. if the 
analysis were performed with standard tools (e.g. perl, python, awk and 
gnuplot). If you could make simple changes to your analysis script and 
then push the data and analysis tools out for number crunching that 
would be great.

Ben Clifford wrote:
> I've seen enough simple (conceptually, not in run size) uses of Swift (2) 
> and heard enough from OSG Engage people about it being useful that I think 
> Swift should have an option to stage an executable instead of finding it 
> remotely.
>
> This seems more useful in some fields and less so in others (for example, 
> where people are writing numeric code in C and so have few library 
> dependencies).
>
> It can be done in Swift in a round-about way at the moment, but I think it 
> should be better supported.
>
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