2016/01/15

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

00:44

Looks like the time has passed. So later today after sleep will be both of KBF writing and de-enumerating ArchitectureData.

09:44

And I am awake, too bad I missed my alarm.

11:08

For the new ArchitectureData, there will most likely only be a handful of architectures in memory at one time. So for memory efficiency I will write up an ArrayMap which is a map backed by an array.

14:42

My recent changes to hairball have broken dependency resolution sort of. If a binary package exists and the source package changes the contents of the project then old package information is used. To fix this I can just make it so that sources are first. However, on the alternative I can just have an alternative source (or rather multiple) sources for project information. Using source directories as higher priority would be the simpler solution at a slight dodge of the issue. The code previously operating in this fashion anyway. I suppose a better solution when multiple package definitions exist instead of just keeping the first used one, I can check the dates and use the latest version instead. That at least would prevent ambiguity because say if directories take higher priority and on a running system there are older sources (with the same version number), although increasing the version number would also solve this, it would require versions to be updated many times. I would suppose that using the project information that is the most up to date would be better.

14:50

Thinking about the timing code, the same code could be used regardless. If one were to walk on a single file then only that file would be visited, if it were on a directory then all files inside would be visited. So I can split off the code and instead just have both source and binary times using that.

14:58

Also if there are multiple binaries and sources, I can use the latest one.

15:32

Issue not fixed yet, however if multiple binaries and sources are detected then only the latest will be used.

15:33

Now to move on to the issue. I need to use the information which is the most up to date. Since package information is bound to the contents, the dependencies if I have not done so already will have to be late bound on the information.

16:03

And the actual solution to PackageInfo's issue was to just clear the cache when bound. However these other changes to hairball will be very useful and safer especially when it comes to an actual running system.

16:46

Time for a short-lived fork so that I can dump the Java instruction information to a manifest based format without performing the work myself.

18:47

The main issue is the best way to handle variable length fields.