Installation configuration notes

[nishihatapalmer]

These are some ideas for how smart should be configured when installed either via binary distribution or after running make all.

Binaries

• Current folder structure of smart in /bin and algos in /bin/algos seems fine to me by default.
• Where these are installed to needs to be configurable by installation script.
• May need to add smart binary location to $PATH if not in a standard place?
• Would we want a separate user algos folder configurable by environment variable?
  • This would let smart use the built-in algos, but also let users compile their own without having to copy them into the main install location.
  • Would need to provide a makefile or something to compile user algos?

Config and logs

• Should put selected_algos and any other config files under the user home directory in home/user/.smart_search or something like that.
• This lets different users perform different experiments and have different configurations, separate from main binary install.
• Not all binary install locations will be writable by each user potentially.
• Would be good to record a log of experiments also e.g. experiment_log.txt or something, if we have a logging framework.

Results

• Probably also need to configure where experiment result output is recorded.
• Again, binary install locations may not be writable by default, so should go somewhere under /home/user again?

[nishihatapalmer]

Should make it so you can run it immediately after make all without having to run an install script first to configure things.