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[Feature Request]: Allow anonymization of the output when calling `chpl --print-chpl-settings` and friends? #25018

Open lydia-duncan opened 1 month ago

lydia-duncan commented 1 month ago

Summary of Feature

Description: $CHPL_HOME/util/printchplenv has an anonymize flag that allows printing Chapel settings without details like the path to the user's installation of Chapel. The Chapel compiler itself provides a flag that generates some similar (if more detailed) information, --print-chpl-settings. Should there be an alternative to this flag or something that prints the same information but is anonymized?

Is this a blocking issue with no known work-arounds? No, if a user really wants to sanitize the results, they can do so by hand (it's just annoying)

Code Sample

I'm personally ambivalent about what this should look like, here's some options:

chpl --print-chpl-settings-anonymous # or
chpl --print-chpl-settings --anonymize
jabraham17 commented 1 month ago

I would advocate for a flag like --print-anon-chpl-settings, --print-chpl-anon-settings, --print-chpl-settings-anon. I think --print-chpl-settings-anonymous is a really long flag to type, and a standalone --anonymize flag on chpl has no meaning without --print-chpl-settings.

This also matches printchplenv behavior. I don't know if it is intentional or not (its not documented anywhere), but printchplenv --anon and printchplenv --anonymize work the same.