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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, February 10, 2009 13:18, Johan Hake wrote:
> 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.

Ok, good.

Johannes

> 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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