[Vm-dev] Fwd: Merging FilesAttributesPlugin

Alistair Grant akgrant0710 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 19:45:16 UTC 2018


Hi Eliot,

On 3 January 2018 at 20:20, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Eliot,
>
> On 3 January 2018 at 19:04, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alistair,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:42 AM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jakob,
>>>
>>> On 2 January 2018 at 06:46, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Am 02.01.2018 04:43 schrieb "Eliot Miranda" <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>>> >
>>> >  ... inst vars such as sCOFfn are set up in initialiseModule.  You're querying the SecurityPlugin on every access as in
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > canStatFilePath: aPathCString length: length
>>> > ...
>>> > (hasSecurityPlugin = 0) ifTrue: [^ true].
>>> > sCOFfn := interpreterProxy ioLoadFunction: 'secCanOpenFileOfSizeWritable' From: 'SecurityPlugin'.
>>> > sCOFfn ~= 0
>>> > ...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I have never looked at this before, so: can this variable name be spelled out, please, so it becomes legible for the uninitiated folk?
>>>
>>> I've made this change in my image, so it will flow through on the next update.
>>
>>
>> I don't think it's necessary.  The long vars are unwieldy and I'm sure Jakob understands the convention now.
>
> OK.
>
>
>> I just did a minor edit on the plain.  I wonder if it's time to move the package to the VMMaker repository.  In any case I'll start including it in builds.
>
> Yes, please :-)
>
> My build system has suddenly decided that it can't find
> libpulse-simple.  I can't see that any of the changes you've made will
> impact it, but I'll work on getting my build working again and running
> it through the test suite.

Deleting the running docker container and going back to the clean
image fixed the libpulse-simple problem.

And all the automated tests pass (FileAttributesPlugin.oscog-eem.22,
Ubuntu 16.04).

Thanks!
Alistair


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