[Swift-devel] Proposed sites.xml management for 0.92 release

[Sarah Kenny]

i can do this most quickly in python if that's ok with others...david, could
you work on gathering the (working) templates from the testing suite into a
directory under etc/ (and commmit to svn) where i can pull them from?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Sarah, David,
>
> While there has been no response on the email list on this, Justin tells me
> that he's OK with it. He wont be able to work on it due to other priorities,
> though.
>
> Can you both collaborate to implement it? Its very similar to what you did
> with swiftconfig, David.
>
> Lets first resolve: should it be in shell, python, or perl? (I favor these
> in the order listed)
>
> I think we need this asap. Can the two of you work together to make it
> happen?
>
> Lets use this email thread and the wiki page to work out the details, on
> swift-devel.
>
> The main steps are:
>
> - create the initial command
> - create and test a library of templates
>  (drawing the templates from the test suite?)
> - create the doc page content (wiki) for end users:
>   http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/GenSites
>   -- should describe the command(s) and conventions
>  -- should describe the templates, perhaps with comments in each template
>  -- gensites -T  # lists all template
>  -- gensites -h # gives basic help
>  -- gensites -h template # gives the help for specific template(s)
> - add any support for genapps? (gentc.sh)
>
> Do you want to do a voice call or txt chat to get this going, or should we
> do it all in email?
>
> - Mike
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Based on discussions in the last 2 weekly meetings, I want to propose
> > this for 0.92, based on Justin's page
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/CoastersCookbook under
> > "Script snippets".
> >
> > Im proposing here a few name changes, specific file location
> > conventions, but basically staying in the spirit of Justin's scripts.
> >
> > gensites.sh -> etc/gensites
> > settings.sh -> merged into a local swift.properties file
> >
> > The swift command "sites" will generate a sites.xml file in the
> > current directory based on the users "site settings" (obtained from
> > swift.properties) and one or more template files that are provided in
> > the Swift release and which can be augmented with the user's own
> > template collection(s).
> >
> > User selects a site template from $SWIFT/etc/sites
> >
> > gensites templates >sites.xml
> >
> > gensites -p sites.properties templates >sites.xml
> >
> > gensites -L template.dir templates >sites.xml
> >
> > The user typically runs gensites only once per run directory
> >
> > Templates are searched for in the following locations:
> >
> > - current directory
> > - etc/sites in the Swift directory
> > - $HOME/.swift/sites in the user's home directory
> > - any -L directories specified on the gensites command line
> >
> > The user's sites-related properties are obtained from:
> >
> > - sites.properties in the current directory
> > - the -p file specified on the gensites command line
> > - $HOME/.swift/sites.properties
> > - $HOME/.swift/swift.properties lines with starting with #site
> >
> > Obviously the fine details of this need to be nailed down; there's
> > some room for discussion for how simple and/or flexible to make this.
> > As long as the search and editing rules are clearly stated, I think
> > users will be well served and happy.
> >
> > Each template should have comments describing its use, nature, and
> > user-changeable settings and defaults.
> >
> > The command should flag required parameters that were not specified in
> > the user's settings. The generated sites.xml file could contain
> > comments stating where the options and templates came from.
> >
> > Im putting this text in:
> >
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/GenSites
> >
> > and we can document specific site file templates in:
> >
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/SiteFiles
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Wilde
> > Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > Argonne National Laboratory
> >
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>
> --
> Michael Wilde
> Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> Argonne National Laboratory
>
>
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