Jonathan Clark

Scala Optparse from Frugal mechanic only gets us so far (and has a few bugs), and Scallop looks awesome. See https://github.com/Rogach/scallop

Syntax highlighting error: /* comments */ versus bash globs /*

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I just noticed a syntax highlighting issue that might be a case against /\* comments */. Consider the following bash glob: ``` tar -xvzf file.tgz dir/* ls file.tgz ``` Under...

If multiple people have written configs for a very similar .tape file, we would like to detect similarities and not do extra work where we dont have to. For example:...

If the user specifies different workflow filenames or different config names to be output into the same directory, they should be warned, in case they accidentally ran two different commands...

Tasks are not reliably unlocked when a process exits

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When a ducttape process exists, lock files are not always removed, despite having `finally {}` blocks in several places. Perhaps this can be fixed with an exit hook?

Making config files more powerful by overriding and inserting tasks

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Consider this workflow: ``` task tokenize < corpus=@ > tok {} task learn < tok=@tokenize {} ``` A few use cases from MT pipelines: 1) Your basic workflow contains a...

Currently, "commands" shows what commands will be run for a particular package. It would also be useful to see what commands (and input files, etc.) _were_ run to produce the...

Broken link to thesis

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http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pliang/papers/meng-thesis.pdf is borken.