gittup/tup — pull request #144 by ppannuto (2013-10-21 00:48:59+00:00)
Title: Default variants

This pull request adds support for default variants. It depends on PR #133.

Currently it the same as before, it extends the option mechanism to add support for default variants. I'm open to suggestions for how you'd prefer to handle this, but I wanted to have this out here as (1) it's a place to have a discussion and (2) this is used extensively by our lab already, so I didn't want to drop support for it.

One suggestion was to simply have two separate sets of options. The current tup-specific options (e.g. updater.num_jobs) and then project-specific options (e.g. default variants and the aliases previously discussed), where the latter are set in the .ini files but .ini files cannot set the former.