Present: Joanne Bogart, Toby Burnett, Jim Chiang, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Seth Digel, Richard Dubois, Navid Golpayegani, Traudl Hansl-Kozanecka, Matt Langston, Julie McEnery, Pat Nolan, Leon Rochester, Alex Schlessinger
Install area: (Traudl) Her presentation (pdf, ppt)described that status of this project and where to go from here. She has a working example which uses the new patterns and fragments (ultimately to be integrated into GlastPolicy) to export executables, libraries, includes, and job options. Of these, all are exported automatically except for job options, which takes some special handling in the package requirements files. The same is true of other categories of files to be shared, such as xml files and data files. Executables, libraries and include files are installed by adding two lines to GlastPolicy, which switch on the install_mechanism and use the new patterns (now in a separate policy package). Data are specific to each experiment and need special, though very similar patterns. The public data foreseen for installation are xml, jobOptions, pfiles, and general public data files.
There were some questions (and would have been more if the meeting hadn't been cut short when Toby and Richard left to participate in another meeting, precipitating a mass exit). Leon asked about test executables. They get exported automatically, which will cause problems, or at least unpredictable behavior, for those executables having non-unique names, like test.exe. Leon also wondered whether, given the amount of stuff to be imported to the install area, this scheme makes life any easier for an end-user on Windows. Toby responded that, since only the libraries, executables, etc. needed are imported, not source, object files, etc., it's not such a great burden and, besides, it saves having to build from source locally.
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