[gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

[chris.neale at utoronto.ca]

Strongly disagreed. I use maxwarn all the time. If it was a hidden  
option, how would I have ever known about it? Further, if it was a  
hidden option, then developers would need to be very careful about  
throwing warnings only in the most dire situations because the general  
user would not know how to circumvent them. This is also not optimal.

There are many things that one is capable of doing with gromacs that  
are incorrect (e.g. coupling ions to their own temperature coupling  
group). But there is no need to make all of these things hidden  
options. As you stated, there are lots of things in gromacs that  
really should not be used unless one knows the exact consequences of  
doing so.

Chris.

-- original message --

>  I would be a fan of making -maxwarn a hidden option; it really should
> not be used unless one knows the exact consequences of doing so.

Agreed.