`star` executable moved from workdir to `build/bin` on main development version

[eliza-frankel]

I’m using the most recent version of MESA from MESAhub in order to use the new custom colors module (in the branch customcolors_update1). In this version, the ./star executable in the working directory has gone missing. I use MESA to build large model grids of hundreds of tracks, and to do so I create an inlist for each instance and use ./star to run each model. Now I have to modify inlist_header, ./rn, and my inlist for each individual run. Additionally there is a new directory called build with a number of subdirectories, including src (which is different than src in the working directory), which was confusing when attempting to edit run_star_extras. I eventually was able to find ./star located in build/bin, but it was difficult to locate.

[VincentVanlaer]

Thanks for reporting this. We are currently discussing in which way we want to restore the old location. The star executable in the build/bin subfolder should behave the exact same way as when it was directly in the work dir.

For future reference, these kind of changes are documented in the changelog, although you will have to make sure to select the "latest" version on the documentation website.