Previously we were truncating the log if it existed. This would cause
redo-log to produce invalid output if you had the following (admittedly
rare) sequence in a single session:
- start building X
- redo-log starts showing the log for X
- finish building X
- redo-log has not finished showing the log for X yet
- start building X again for some reason
- redo-log sees a truncated logfile.
Now, redo-log can finish reading the original file (which no longer has
a filename since it was overwritten) while the new file is being
created.
This removes another instance of magical code running at module import
time. And the process title wasn't really part of the state database
anyway.
Unfortunately this uncovered a bug: the recent change to use
'python -S' makes it not find the setproctitle module if installed.
My goodness, I hate the horrible python easy_install module gunk that
makes startup linearly slower the more modules you have installed,
whether you import them or not, if you don't use -S. But oh well,
we're stuck with it for now.
This avoids a name overlap with the system-installed copy of python.
Since redo adds the redo/ dir to the $PATH before running .do files,
python.do might see its own previously-created target instead of the
"real" python when testing, and create an infinite loop by accident.
It's time to start preparing for a version of redo that doesn't work
unless we build it first (because it will rely on C modules, and
eventually be rewritten in C altogether).
To get rolling, remove the old-style symlinks to the main programs, and
rename those programs from redo-*.py to redo/cmd_*.py. We'll also move
all library functions into the redo/ dir, which is a more python-style
naming convention.
Previously, install.do was generating wrappers for installing in
/usr/bin, which extend sys.path and then import+run the right file.
This made "installed" redo work quite differently from running redo
inside its source tree. Instead, let's always generate the wrappers in
bin/, and not make anything executable except those wrappers.
Since we're generating wrappers anyway, let's actually auto-detect the
right version of python for the running system; distros can't seem to
agree on what to call their python2 binaries (sigh). We'll fill in the
right #! shebang lines. Since we're doing that, we can stop using
/usr/bin/env, which will a) make things slightly faster, and b) let us
use "python -S", which tells python not to load a bunch of extra crap
we're not using, thus improving startup times.
Annoyingly, we now have to build redo using minimal/do, then run the
tests using bin/redo. To make this less annoying, we add a toplevel
./do script that knows the right steps, and a Makefile (whee!) for
people who are used to typing 'make' and 'make test' and 'make clean'.
