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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, January 23, 2009 10:32, Johan Hake wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2009 10:09:12 Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, January 22, 2009 19:10, Johan Hake wrote:
>> >> On Thursday 22 January 2009 17:02:41 A Navaei wrote:
>> >>> Johan,
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks, instant-clean did the trick! Maybe this should be somehow
>> >>> automated.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, I have thought about it.
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible to add a call to instant-clean in the install script
>> of
>> >> the ffc
>> >> and dolfin packages Johannes?
>> >
>> > Yes, it is possible to add post installation scripts to the FFC and
>> > DOLFIN packages (and perhaps Instant) that runs instant-clean. Should
>> I
>> > add this?
>> >
>> > Johannes
>>
>> Can you add it to SyFi as well please? But we don't want this in
>> development versions though, we should at least have an option
>> to avoid it.
>
> I think it will be sufficient to add the automatic cleaning in the ubuntu
> scripts.

Hi,

I had to remove the post installation scripts that did the automatic
cleaning of the Instant cache as it is not very nice (security vise) to
remove files from a users home directory without the users permission
(drift told me). This should be solved at a different level, not by the
Ubuntu packages.

Johannes

> I can add the swig version to the signature generation in ffc and dolfin.
>
> While on the topic, does instant check whether swig is installed, when a
> module is built? Also I have on several occasions now checked for the swig
> version. Should I put this code in instant, e.g.
>
>    check_swig_version("1.3.35")
>
> It will return false if the current swig version is lesser than "1.3.35"?
> I
> think it would be natural for instant to provide such a function.
>
>> Even better would be adding version numbers to the checksum,
>
> Ok, this was what Anders suggested? If so I can probably add this too.
>
>> make instant keep a most recently used list, add a max cache size
>> option to ~/.instant/intantrc, and let instant clean up the oldest
>> modules whenever it adds stuff to the cache which exceeds its
>> quota.
>
> Sounds nice.
>
>> And we should probably add another feature to instant:
>> providing a cache subfolder name. Then instant-clean can
>> take an argument to clean only the "ffc" cache subfolder etc.
>
> This should be quite easy to add right? Just add:
>
>   cache_subfolder=None,
>
> to build_module(), copy_to_cache() and get_default_cache_dir() in instant,
> and
> of course implement the functionality. Then instant-clean has to be
> altered.
>
>
> Johan
>