*An enhancement to permit some form of delimiter escaping would probably still be nice, but is low priority.* [Josh] Not a problem, Dave. We will do this.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Dave Goodell (dgoodell) <dgood...@cisco.com > wrote: > On Jul 16, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Joshua Ladd <jladd.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ralph warned me that no matter what decision we made, someone would > probably violently object. So, with that in mind, let me put my diplomat > hat on... > > FWIW, I don't think my objections here have been "violent". > > > Dave, I'm sorry you view this as a "crapification" of your mpirun user > interface. Your lament is duly noted and we are happy to work with you to > come to (yet another) happy compromise. It's unfortunate that the issue > wasn't raised during the dev meeting when these decisions were made (you > were sitting right next to me while I discussed this out loud with Jeff and > Ralph.) At the time, it seemed all interested parties had expressed their > concern and voiced their opinion on the matter, and the implementation you > see in the trunk today, including the decision to deprecate the "-x" > option, was the generally agreed upon consensus. > > I think I misunderstood that the "-x" option was going away altogether, so > sorry for the after-the-fact complaints. Probably poor listening on my > part, but I don't think that changes my opinion on the UI impact. > > I'm aware that I'm in the minority here. I don't think that I care enough > to continue arguing over this, so let's just let it be as-is. An > enhancement to permit some form of delimiter escaping would probably still > be nice, but is low priority. > > -Dave > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/07/15185.php >
