Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> writes: > On 4/16/12 7:32 AM, Rainer Orth wrote: > >> Btw., it occured to me that it might be useful to add an option to >> locate out-of-tree manifests. I often have several source trees >> (unmodified sources, ones with local patches) and would like to share >> manifests between them. While this can be achieved with symlinks, a >> --manifest_dir or similar option might be an alternative. Thoughts? > > That would be fantastic. This is not the first time someone requests this, > but I've never gotten around to implementing it. The only thing there is > that multiple manifests means that versioning needs to be handled > externally to the script. But that's not a big deal.
Indeed, but the advantage is that people can choose whatever naming scheme they like for the different manifests instead of implementing some (probably limited) scheme inside validate_failures.py. I'll give it a whirl, but probably only in early May, once I return from a trip to California. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University