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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 13:12:37 Johannes Ring wrote:
> 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.

Ok, sounds reasonable. 

I do not think this will bring any compatability problems for ubuntu users, 
with the recently added swig checks.

Johan

> 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
>
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