[VoxBo] jobtypes

[Daniel Y Kimberg]

Clayton Curtis wrote:
> I've recently upgraded to 1.8.2 from 1.6.  I'm having problems with
> my dozen or so jobtypes that my lab has developed.  They worked in
> 1.6 but for some reason are not working in 1.8.2.  Has anything
> changed about the structure or syntax of voxbo jobtypes?  Or is there
> something special about the way your migrate the jobtypes?  I just
> simply copied them into the jobtypes directory of the new
> distribution.  However, when I  "voxq --jobtypes" I do indeed see my
> jobtypes.

I should have put this in the release notes, but jobtypes now have
their arguments declared, and they're named instead of numbered.  You
can look at the ones distributed with VoxBo for examples, but for each
argument you need a paragraph like this:

argument
 name=stem
 argdesc=directory containing glm information
 type=string
end

and in the command invocation, you'd refer to its value as $(stem)

> Also, can you point me to documentation on creating jobtypes?

I'll try to put this in the wiki soon.  We're currently making some
more changes in how jobtypes work to accomodate better flow control,
some cool logging features, and a graphical sequence programming tool.
So the format will change some more, but I'll try to document the
changes this time.

> One other suggestion that would be helpful is the addition of a
> field on the webpage for searching for keywords in the mail
> archives.  Yeah, I know you can do this in google, but you also get
> a bunch of irrelevant stuff.

I'd like to add a box to the page that automatically does the search
via google, restricted to the archives pages.  I usually end up
downloading the whole mailing list archive and dropping it into my
email program to search there.  Also, the archives are totally out of
date now, because after a recent uptgrade they sudednly started
getting stored in a different location.  I'll try to patch this mess
up soon.

dan