[kepler-dev] changing suites with new changes

[Chad Berkley]

The problem is that for the kar handlers anyway, you're adding to the 
core configuration, so it's reading in the changes to core, which would 
be loaded anyway.

chad

Aaron Schultz wrote:
> 
> Chad does the configuration system know which modules are in the active 
> suite?  Perhaps it needs to be smart enough to only read the 
> configuration of the currently running modules?
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> Aaron Schultz wrote:
>>
>> Chad, no definitely not, the whole point of the persistent directory 
>> is that it never gets deleted or removed.  Perhaps we need to store 
>> the configuration information in the transient module directory...  Or 
>> the build system needs to delete just the configuration directories 
>> when the suite is changed...  or some other solution.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> Chad Berkley wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A few things have changed in the last couple days.  For one, the 
>>> persistent (non-cache) data is now being stored in ~/KeplerData 
>>> instead of .kepler/persistent.  The 2nd thing that has changed is 
>>> that I changed the configuration manager to automatically save 
>>> configurations as they change.  Because of this, you may see errors 
>>> when you change between suites becuase the configuration manager will 
>>> (correctly) read the config files in the KeplerData directory which 
>>> might have incorrect configuration data for the suite you have 
>>> changed to.
>>>
>>> The error I ran into was when I switched from wrp to kepler.  Because 
>>> the wrp suite adds additional kar handlers that kepler does not have, 
>>> I get a classNotFoundException on startup.  This can be remedied by 
>>> removing your KeplerData/modules directory when you switch between 
>>> modules.  I can change the clean-all build command to do this 
>>> automatically if everyone agrees that this directory should be 
>>> removed with a clean-all.
>>>
>>> Just a heads up.
>>>
>>> chad
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