Re: Auto-create processe's output-path?

[Olivier Dion via <gwl-devel@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 06 Jun 2022, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> writes:
>
>> I have a pipeline of processes.  These are all templated and I generate
>> hundreds of these pipelines with different parameters.  Everything is
>> auto-connected with inputs/outputs matching.  What is important to me is
>> that all inputs/outputs of a pipeline are separated in different
>> directories.
>>  
>> Setting a working directory that is parameterizable for the processes
>> would do this cleanly and I believe would also work in a containerized
>> environment.
>
> This sounds like a good idea.  Better than “output-path”, which is hard
> to understand, conceptually collides with “outputs”, and is used as a
> prefix.  Specifying a working directory sounds like an improvement.
>
> Would you like to add a patch to that effect?

Yes.  I'll send a patch soon!

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Olivier Dion
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