On Jul 16, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Joshua Ladd <jladd.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ralph warned me that no matter what decision we made, someone would probably > violently object. So, with that in mind, let me put my diplomat hat on... FWIW, I don't think my objections here have been "violent". > Dave, I'm sorry you view this as a "crapification" of your mpirun user > interface. Your lament is duly noted and we are happy to work with you to > come to (yet another) happy compromise. It's unfortunate that the issue > wasn't raised during the dev meeting when these decisions were made (you were > sitting right next to me while I discussed this out loud with Jeff and > Ralph.) At the time, it seemed all interested parties had expressed their > concern and voiced their opinion on the matter, and the implementation you > see in the trunk today, including the decision to deprecate the "-x" option, > was the generally agreed upon consensus. I think I misunderstood that the "-x" option was going away altogether, so sorry for the after-the-fact complaints. Probably poor listening on my part, but I don't think that changes my opinion on the UI impact. I'm aware that I'm in the minority here. I don't think that I care enough to continue arguing over this, so let's just let it be as-is. An enhancement to permit some form of delimiter escaping would probably still be nice, but is low priority. -Dave
