The Cooperative Computing Tools (cctools) enable large scale distributed computations to harness hundreds to thousands of machines from clusters, clouds, and grids.
In some environments, it will not be possible for workers to perform URL downloads directly.
Instead, the manager must perform the download and substitute the URL with a vine_file_local.
Add an option to the manager so the user can enable this mode in one place easily.
This is similar to #3756 but backwards: when encountering a VINE_FILE_URL, the manager downloads it to the (manager-side) cache, and then substitutes an appropriate VINE_FILE instead.
In some environments, it will not be possible for workers to perform URL downloads directly. Instead, the manager must perform the download and substitute the URL with a
vine_file_local
. Add an option to the manager so the user can enable this mode in one place easily.