[Developers] Out-of-the-box compilable ThornList

[Erik Schnetter]

On Monday 06 June 2005 14:37, Steve White wrote:
> ==========================
> What can we do about this?
> ==========================
>
> One solution would be to relocate thorns that require uncommon
> libraries and environments; these would be available in a separate
> download.
>
> Is it possible to educate the mechanism which builds the initial
> ThornList to comment out thorns for which the user's environment is
> insufficient?
>
> Any other ideas?

Thomas Radke suggested something different.

He thinks that the idea of automatically generating a thorn list from 
"nothing" is a bad idea.  He suggests that we incorporate the 
generate-thornlist script, which is currently available from a web 
page, into Cactus.  You can then take a parameter file and create a 
thorn list from that.  You can thus e.g. generate a thorn list from the 
example parameter files in Cactus.

I would go even further and distribute some sample thorn lists (wavetoy, 
relativity, etc.) with Cactus.  Such sample thorn lists are also 
already available from web pages.

I don't know why these things were put onto web pages instead of into 
Cactus, maybe into the arrangements where they belong.

The current option to create thorn lists out of nothing would then be 
deprecated because it is so confusing.



A different issue is how to check out Cactus from CVS originally.  
Thomas Radke suggested to distribute the CVS password for the read-only 
anonymous accounts with Cactus, so that scripts can just check out 
thorns without forcing the user to log in before.

-erik

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