Opened 8 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#450 closed enhancement (fixed)
Update ROPP tools to use 'best' configuration options
| Reported by: | Ian Culverwell | Owned by: | Ian Culverwell |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 9.0 |
| Component: | ROPP (all) | Version: | 8.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
At the ROPP8.0 DRI, Axel said that he would like the 'best' configuration options to become the default. By this he meant that things like the 'compressibility factors' and 'improved forward models' should no longer need to be actively switched on. Obviously this would destroy backwards compatibilty. Should we bite the bullet and do it - subject to conspicuous notification in the Release Notes? This would incur a lot of work, because a user not wanting to use (eg) compressibility factors would need a -nocomp option to be introduced (and tested and documented and maintained and ...).
Alternatively we could handle it with, for instance, a -best option, which would activate all our current 'best' options. The set of such options would naturally evolve over time, so that ropp_fm_bg2ro_1d -best would itself no longer be backwards compatible, but all other options should be. And that would only require one more option for the tools.
To be mulled over further.
Implemented in ropp_fm at ROPP9.0. If this proves to be useful/popular, then we should consider doing likewise in the other modules - with separate tickets for each. Closing this one.