On Apr 21, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote: > I saw the "extra bonus points" proposal for svn-style "mpirun help command", > and I interpreted it to be slightly different from what I had in mind. What > I indented by my suggestion was regrouping the existing 200+ line > alphabetical-by-option-name output into from 5 to 10 topic sections - > relatively minor "editorial" work (not that I am volunteering) when compared > to writing new documentation.
Ah, I gotcha. I understand you now, but I still classify it as "I'd love to see someone's patch for it." :-) > Oh, one more related thing. At least in 1.4.2 the --help output goes to > stderr rather than stdout. The gnu utilities all send their --help output to > stdout. This may seem like a extremely minor point to the folks on this > list, but you would be surprised how many end-users don't know how to > redirect stderr to a pipe (that is to say "mpirun --help | less" doesn't do > what the user wants). Perhaps that is already fixed in 1.5.x? Nope, it's not. But that's a good reason to change it (GNU apps send to stdout). I'll take that as a friendly amendment to my proposal. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
