+1. Single dashed long names drive me nuts. -Nathan
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:17:11PM -0800, Ralph Castain wrote:
> +1
>
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com>
> wrote:
>
> > WHAT: Drop mpirun single-dash CLI options such as -bynode (but keep the
> > double-dash equivalents, like --bynode)
> >
> > WHY: It's a well-established de facto CLI option standard:
> > "-" is used for single-letter options
> > "--" is used for tokenized options
> >
> > WHERE: probably mostly in orte/tools/orterun
> >
> > WHEN: 1.9
> >
> > TIMEOUT: Teleconf, Tuesday 21 Jan 2014
> >
> > MORE DETAIL:
> >
> > We've supported single- and double-dash variants of many mpirun options for
> > several years (e.g., --bynode and -bynode). With the exception of "-np",
> > there's really no reason we should support the single-dash versions ("-np"
> > is pretty universally expected in the MPI/HPC world; I don't think we'll
> > ever be able to get rid of it).
> >
> > Let's deprecate all single-dash options (except -np) in 1.7.5/1.8 and
> > eliminate them in 1.9. Specifically, let's do something like this in 1.7.5:
> >
> > -----
> > $ shell mpirun -bynode -np 4 a.out
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > You used the "-bynode" option to mpirun, which, although it still functions
> > as you would expect it to, is now deprecated. The exactly-equivalent
> > "--bynode"
> > option replaces the "-bynode" option.
> >
> > *** NOTE THAT -bynode OPTION WILL DISAPPEAR IN A FUTURE VERSION OF OPEN
> > MPI! ***
> >
> > To be compatible with future versions of Open MPI, use the "--bynode"
> > option.
> >
> > If you can't easily change your mpirun command line, then you can set the
> > MCA
> > parameter orterun_i_promise_to_update_my_cli_options_before_ompi_1_9 to 1,
> > which will suppress this message.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -----
> >
> > This gives the user two clear options:
> >
> > 1. Update from -foo to --foo to be forward compatible
> > 2. Set an MCA parameter to suppress the message, but risk not being forward
> > compatible
> >
> > Then, on trunk/v1.9, we remove all the single-dash options.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Squyres
> > jsquy...@cisco.com
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