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Notes on the IPython configuration system
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This document has some random notes on the configuration system.
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To start, an IPython process needs:
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* Command line options
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* Additional files (FURL files, extra scripts, etc.)
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It feeds these things into the core logic of the process, and as output,
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There are a number of things that complicate this:
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* A process may need to be started on a different host that doesn't have
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any of the config files or additional files. Those files need to be
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moved over and put in a staging area. The process then needs to be told
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* The location of the output files should somehow be set by config files or
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* Our config files are very hierarchical, but command line options are flat,
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making it difficult to relate command line options to config files.
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* Some processes (like ipcluster and the daemons) have to manage the input and
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output files for multiple different subprocesses, each possibly on a
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different host. Ahhhh!
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* Our configurations are not singletons. A given user will likely have
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many different configurations for different clusters.