Re: [Starpu-devel] Environment variables over starpu_conf?

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Cyril Roelandt, le Mon 06 Feb 2012 12:10:09 +0100, a écrit :
> On 12/20/2011 01:24 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >ATM the starpu_conf structure passed to starpu_init takes precedence
> >over environment variables.  I'd say it should be the converse,
> >shouldn't it?
> >
> 
> I agree with you. Do all applications make sure environment variables take
> precedence over their configuration ? Is that a convention, or is it up to
> every application ?

I've usually seen environment variables taking precedence over
source-code-hardcoded values. Command-line options then usually take
precedence over environment variables.

> If we choose to modify the behaviour of StarPU regarding environment
> variables, this should be done before 1.0.0, along with the API changes.
> Maybe for rc3 ?

The earliest, the better, so I'd say rc2.

Samuel