From: Diego Virasoro <diego.virasoro@...>
Date: 2009-11-24T23:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ideas for a "parameter sweep" program?

On 24 Nov, 13:11, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Diego Virasoro wrote:
> > I would like a generic solution that works with any language for any
> > program (including Fortran that doesn't allow to pass arguments form
> > the command line).
>
> So how do you pass parameters to your Fortran program - in a config file
> perhaps? If so, then just generate that file then run the program. It's
> up to you to code what you want.

Yes, it would generally read a file. Don't get me wrong: I know how to
do it. Currently I've got a bash script that does it for one
particular executable by using sed and make. I just wanted to
generalise it and given I hate bash Ruby seemed like the best
alternative.

However I would also like to make it a lot more generic and flexible,
as maybe other people in my group may be interested in using it too.

Which lead to the question: what would be the best way? A rake file, a
yaml input file, some internal DSL?

Diego