Re: status update

Hi Daniel,

Congratulations, you pass the midterm evaluation.

Now, please note that you really are behind the schedule.
You need to polish your fixes to rawsock, get your new modules
accepted to gnulib, finish converting clisp to use autotools
throughout, and make a release.
(note that your tar ball is missing version number :-)

Please keep sending updates a couple of times a week.

Good luck and thanks!

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 6:06 AM, Daniel Jour <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh my, I've been working on fixing something that's just not fixable
> for the last day (reverse DNS lookup ... doesn't work on my test
> windows machine, not even with nslookup.exe).
>
> Source tarbal:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B303fG5hcio_bzR4SWszcnRoTWM/view?usp=sharing
>
>
>> By that time I need to have an independent confirmation that you
>> built clisp on windows with working rawsock module (that was the
>> condition for the midterm "pass" from the get go).  Please make sure
>> that I do get the confirmation by then.  Sorry if that sounds harsh,
>> but rules are rules.
>
> No problem. I'm a week behind schedule, and there's absolutely nothing
> that you could've done / helped me with to prevent that.
>
> CLISP with rawsock builds on windows, but it's not yet able to pass
> all tests. The core tests hangs when trying to let another CLISP
> instance send data via sockets to itself, but as far as I can see this
> is an issue with the invocation of that second instance.
>
> I removed the reverse DNS lookup from the rawsock tests, that way I
> got the number of errors down to 13. These seem mostly to come from
> the code that is sitting in syscalls module and core CLISP. On another
> windows test machine rawsock tests give a stack overflow when testing
> rawsock errors (the test that starts with "(block foo"), I don't know
> why yet.
>
> Regarding the independent confirmation: I'm a bit afraid that due to
> the lack of remaining time this could be an issue (I don't know how
> many are actively following this conversation). Is another GSoC
> student independent enough? (I was thinking about asking for help on
> the summer of code mailing list .. in order to have someone download
> the source tarbal, build it and send the confirmation to clisp-list.)
>
>
>> what are the changes you had to make to get it working?  it's
>> important that the changes "scale", i.e., a gnulib update does not
>> entail much work.
>
> The changes to rawsock? Not that much, actually. I switched its build
> system to one built with autotools, mostly in order to give it an
> gnulib checkout of its own. I'm writing some gnulib modules to patch
> functionality missing on windows (ifaddrs.h functions atm) so that the
> code in rawsock can be completelty platform independent.
>
> If by "scale" you mean that they can be built upon: Updating gnulib (when,
> for example there's an update in a used module) means running
>
> gnulib-tool --update
>
> in modules/rawsock, followed by
>
> autoreconf --force --install
>
> This is the exact procedure I'm following whenever I've made a change
> to one of the used modules.
>
> Though, atm the code is messy: I copied some parts from core CLISP and
> the syscalls module, although I don't use it. The reason is that both
> core CLISP as well as syscalls are still using the old, not yet
> updated gnulib code. Updating that failed due to the build system not
> being able to "rebuild" itself (the configures target in
> Makefile.devel fails).
>
> Looking at how much time I wasted struggling with the build system I'd
> like to replace it with an "standard" autotools one. I already started
> work on that, it shouldn't be much of an issue.
>
> I'd like to start a discussion about the modules and their
> organization in general, but I'll write that in a separate message
> soon.



-- 
Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org> <http://www.childpsy.net/>

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