On Jul 16, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Dave Goodell (dgoodell) <dgood...@cisco.com> 
wrote:

> On Jul 16, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Mike Dubman <mi...@dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> 
>> we have a strong use-case for list of env variables passed as mca params.(it 
>> was presented and discussed in the past).
> 
> I'm not disputing your use case for "mca_base_env_list".  I'm only lamenting 
> the crapification of our mpirun user interface.  We had an earlier change 
> along these lines based on similar reasoning: the easy-to-use-and-remember 
> "--pernode N" was replaced with "--map-by ppr:N:node", which I cannot ever 
> seem to remember.

Same reason, I'm afraid - no way to do the mapping

> 
>> we can rename opal_base_envlist as "-mca x var=val" for consistency.
>> also, "-x" param now is just an alias for "-mca opal_base_envlist var=val" - 
>> so, we can keep it (w/o deprecation warning) as it re-uses same infra.
> 
> Mike, will you make this change?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Dave
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