[mpas-developers] Naming Schemes

[William Lipscomb]

Hi all,

I like this general naming scheme.  I just wonder how we should  
designate land ice as opposed to sea ice.  The current CESM convention  
is that sea ice is "ice" and land ice is "glc".  Should we use that  
convention, or should we switch to "landice" and "seaice" for greater  
clarity?  (Although "landice" is kind of long-winded, I don't think  
"lice" is a good option.)

Cheers,

Bill


On Sep 29, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Doug Jacobsen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just so you know, we have decided on a formal naming scheme for  
> modules.
> This naming scheme is chosen to try and keep all portions of mpas  
> named
> uniformly. The generic format of this new naming scheme is as follows.
>
> [model]_[core]_[module_name].F
>
> Where [model] is going to be mpas for almost every source file. This  
> choice
> is to help reduce potential namespace conflicts from the use of  
> module.
>
> [core] represents the core the code belongs to. For ocean, we are  
> using ocn
> for [core], and atmosphere might use atmos for [core]. The choice  
> here would
> be left up to the group developing the core to decide on.
>
> [module_name] is left ambiguous, and is meant to represent the  
> content of
> the individual source file.
>
> As an example, module_time_integration.F from the ocean core would be
> transformed using this naming scheme to mpas_ocn_time_integration.F.
>
> Also, all letter should be lower case in this naming scheme, to keep  
> file
> name uniform looking.
>
> I have also provided a simple bash script you can use to migrate  
> file names
> to the new format, and update the Makefile for the core. I would read
> through it and edit it if you need to before running it, but it  
> should give
> a simple example of how to do this.
>
> If there are any questions or comments on this choice please let me  
> know,
> but I am going to be implementing this across our ocean core. Please  
> use
> this naming scheme when creating new modules.
>
> Thank you!
> Doug
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