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

[Cyril Roelandt <cyril.roelandt@inria.fr>]

On 02/06/2012 02:01 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.

Then we should probably do that.

> > 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.

Why not. I'm just afraid we might keep adding every single change to 
rc2, and never release it. Maybe we should have a list of things that 
should be shipped with rc2, and stick to it.

Cyril.