On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
> 
>>> I agree with Jeff's comments about the BTL_ERROR. How about a middle ground 
>>> here? We let the BTLs use BTL_ERROR, eventually with some modifications, 
>>> and we redirect the BTL_ERROR to a more advanced macro including support 
>>> for orte_show_help? This will require going over all the BTLs, but on the 
>>> bright side it will give us a 100% consistency on retorting errors.
>> 
>> Sounds reasonable to me - I'm happy to help do it, assuming Jeff also 
>> concurs. I assume we would then replace all the show_help calls as well? 
>> Otherwise, I'm not sure what we gain as the direct orte_show_help dependency 
>> will remain. Or are those calls too specialized to be replaced with 
>> BTL_ERROR?
> 
> Should this kind of thing wait for OPAL_SOS?
> 
> (I mention this because the OPAL_SOS RFC will be sent to devel Real Soon 
> Now...)

Sure - OPAL_SOS will supersede all this anyway.

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