[Swift-devel] Notes from trying new config

[Mihael Hategan]

Was there ever a reply from me on this? I have one in my "Sent" folder,
but I don't see it on the mailing list.

Mihael

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 17:36 -0500, Yadu Nand Babuji wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just tried to run some test scripts using trunk and these are my 
> observations:
> 
> I copied the swift.conf file from the configuration section in the trunk 
> userguide.
> 
> 1. I got an error about lazy.errors=false. Found that lazy.errors has 
> been replaces by lazyErrors. Minor doc mismatch here.
> 2. Then I got a swift.conf:2 missing mandatory property 
> 'site.local.workDirectory'
> 3. Then this -> swift.conf:2 missing mandatory property 
> 'site.local.filesystem.type'
>      - This one is missing documentation as well.
> 
> I like that there are sensible error messages, but at the same time I 
> feel that the config file has gotten a bit more verbose
> that the 0.95 swift.properties. I really like the 0.95 feature where you 
> could have several sites defined in your config file, and
> then you choose what sites to run on from the commandline using 
> -sites=<sites1, ...>. This makes the commandline very
> simple and helps with tutorials and demos.
> 
> I could not get past this error once it looked like the config was fixed.
> 
> swift -config swift.conf sanity.swift
> Swift trunk swift-r8021 cog-r4025 (cog modified locally)
> RunID: run014
> Could not start execution:
>      Import of 'swift.k' failed, import @ sanity.kml, line: 5:
>      Invalid node definition class: 
> org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.Mapping$Cons, def @ swift.k, line: 91:
>      org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.Mapping$Cons
> 
> 
> -Yadu