Hmm, maybe it can also cause trouble with the reuse of parts from previous steps if the user doesn't proceed with care.
You could overwrite steps/1/config.1 on a call of experiment.perl -config config.1 -continue 1 -exec . On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 20:56 +0000, Matthias Huck wrote: > Hi Philipp, > > Usually I just keep track of the EMS config files in my base directory > and more or less ignore the steps/*/config.* copies. > > I never mix > experiment.perl -config config.1 -continue 1 > and > experiment.perl -continue 1 > > so I won't run into trouble. > > This workflow was totally okay for me so far. I wouldn't be surprised if > many other users do the same. > > I agree that it may "cause some unexpected behaviour down the road", > e.g. if the web interface is used in a collaborative environment for > keeping track of experiments. It's gonna display the config from the > steps/ directory, even though that one might have been superseded when > continuing the experiment. > > Cheers, > Matthias > > > On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 15:17 -0500, Philipp Koehn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I looked at the code, and I was not happy with what I found, although > > I apparently wrote it. > > > > > > What do you expect > > experiment.perl -config config.1 -continue 1 > > to do differently than > > experiment.perl -continue 1 > > > > > > Currently it seems to run with the specified config file but not > > overwrite steps/1/config.1 which may cause some unexpected behaviour > > down the road... > > > > > > -phi > > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Matthias Huck <mh...@inf.ed.ac.uk> > > wrote: > > Hi Philipp, > > > > On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:17 -0500, Philipp Koehn wrote: > > > the command > > > experiment.perl -config config.1 -continue 1 > > > actually is not defined. > > > > Are you sure about this? I seem to be doing that kind of thing > > all the > > time and never had any issues with it, as far as I can tell. > > It won't replace an older steps/1/config.1 , but I typically > > don't mind. > > > > Cheers, > > Matthias > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered > > in > > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
