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

[Michael Wilde]

Sarah, David,

Yes, I think gathering the site templates is indeed the first step. Then parameterizing them, including provisions for removing lines (per the GetSites spec page). 

And I agree that we should set swiftrun aside (and later bundle any needed parts of it into the swift command).

David, I reviewed the current swiftconfg, and I feel it can be greatly simplified by rewriting as a shell script.

There is some reasonable shell arg parsing logic we can lift from:

  https://svn.ci.uchicago.edu/svn/vdl2/SwiftApps/SwiftR/Swift/exec/start-swift

(arg parsing is right after the usage() function around midway through the script)

- Mike


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sounds good to me david...i don't know perl so maybe my time would be better spent using it and updating the doc in sync with you working on the code (?) i think first we want to separate swiftconfig from swiftrun...it would be good if users who are already used to running regular 'swift' to be able to transition to using swiftconfig (i realize this probably affects the doc more than your code, i just wanted to mention it). 

so, maybe the first step is switching out the sites templates? 


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:51 PM, David Kelly < dk0966 at cs.ship.edu > wrote: 


Would it be easier to modify the existing swiftconfig to adjust to the new format of templates? 


The main steps that were outlined are nearly already completed with swiftconfig 


- The commands are already there 
- A set of templates already exists, but would most likely be replaced with the ones verified by automated testing in the format Justin specified 
- A good start for documentation using swiftconfig on a variety of configurations is at http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/LearningSwift 
- Documentation for commands and syntax is there, swiftconfig -h and swiftrun -h 
- List all templates with swiftconfig -list templates (already knows the correct order of where to look for templates) 
- Help for specific templates is a good idea. That would be pretty straightforward to add 
- Support for applications and application groups is already there 


If we started over it seems like we would be duplicating a lot of code 



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Michael Wilde 
Computation Institute, University of Chicago 
Mathematics and Computer Science Division 
Argonne National Laboratory