Ducttape 0.3 Now Available

[Jonathan Clark]

Summary

Ducttape 0.3 final is now available. This version is expected to be stable. Please report any bugs.

Download: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jhclark/downloads/ducttape-0.3.tgz

Documentation, install instructions, and very basic tutorial: https://github.com/jhclark/ducttape

An example of Chris Dyer's new cdec tutorial, ported to ducttape: https://github.com/jhclark/ducttape/tree/master/examples/cdec_tutorial

A very good tutorial by Nathan Schieder (still in progress): http://nschneid.github.com/ducttape-crash-course/tutorial.html

A minimal web UI by Victor Chahuneau: https://github.com/vchahun/ducttape-web

Changelog

• Branch graft globs are now implemented (e.g. in=$out@score[OptReplica:*])
• Print a success message when all tasks complete successfully
• Ignore undeclared/unused variables by default
• Depth-first traversal of workflow to encourage fail-fast behavior (breadth-first also available)
• Fixed bug that was throwing errors about the .versions directory -- workflow version information is now stored properly
• 'versions' mode added
• Support for ~ (home directory) in filenames
• A script called ducttape_task.sh is now written in reach task's output directory to help debugging -- ducttape does not actually run this script
• Function blocks are now supported (see tutorial/07-02-functions.tape)
• More concise stdout/stderr messages
• Add directive for ducttape_auto_update_packages=disable along with 'update' mode to allow updating packages only on demand
• Added "tabular" script for use with summary mode
• Fixed bug in summary mode that caused table rows to be unnecessarily separated
• Improvements to 'viz' mode including packed, unpacked, and debug visualizations
• Print full realization names next to canonical directory names during execution confirmation
• Allow multiple plans to be specified at once on the command line
• Allow reach...via lines clauses in plans to contain newlines
• Plenty of minor bug fixes