On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Adrian Roitberg wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> 1. It would make it impossible to reproduce data exactly (let's say for
> debugging) unless the user sets him/herself the seed by hand.
I imagine we could just instruct users to add some fixed ig *only*
during the debugging process. Maybe there could be a note in the
manual about that?
> 2. The test cases MUST have a seed set by hand, otherwise they would never
> pass.
>
>
> These are no problems in general, unless the users copy and paste test cases
> and adapt them to their own needs. We do this a lot. When I need to run a
> new feature I am not familiar with, I look at the test cases, learn from
> them and change what I need to change. If the test cases have a fix ig value
> and users do not change it, then we are back to square one.
Here I have a suggestion, but I'm not sure how portable that is. I
have notice that, at least in the systems I have worked with, the
namelist allows comments in fortran format. So, a line like that would
be allowed:
ig=1234, ! *** FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY. REMOVE THIS LINE FOR REAL
CALCULATIONS ***
and the user would be well advised. Is there anyone here with a system
for which that would *not* work? A simple sed script should be enough
to add such line to the test cases.
Cheers,
Gustavo.
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