On 6/2/23 5:08 PM, Olga Arkhipova wrote:
> In my experience - a lot of things can go wrong when launching a process and it is often hard to reason about failures there.
>
> It is much easier/more robust to work with json files.
I tend to agree. Though there are plenty of things that can go wrong
with side files as well, on balance, I would favor them. The major con
with side files is that they can get out of sync with the executable. On
the other hand, if a side file is incorrect in some way, it is much
easier to update it to workaround issues than it is to workaround an
issue with a tool's command line behavior.
> I believe that IDEs and different generators will very likely be interested in build tool capabilities. And those IDE/generators processes might not even be able to launch a tool as they are not necessarily running in the environment the tool can run. Or they might be running on a different OS altogether for some cross-platform development.
This is a very good point.
> For side files distribution - my understanding is that the world is moving to "download my tools as a package" paradigm and it should not be a problem there.

Some OSs went in that direction over 30 years ago; I'm glad others are
finally catching up! ;)

Tom.

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> Olga
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> Subject: Re: [SG15] P2717R1, EcoIS Introspection
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> Sorry about replying to myself.. Thoughts are randomly filling my head :-)
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> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 3:46 PM René Ferdinand Rivera Morell <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> And as some parts of it run in a local network distributed compute
>> structure.
> Thinking about that aspect brings up an interesting problem. Having extra side-band files for the tools adds some difficulty in those distributed tool execution systems. As distributing such files also have to learn how/when to distribute the side-band data. And to distribute in such a way as to not break whatever search of that side-band data the rest of the tools are doing. But having a command line option automatically travels with the tools without such difficulty.
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