My team and I keep experiencing the same problem when we try to use browserify with watchify while developing our application.
Essentially here is the issue. Lets say we have the following file structure:
js
-- folder1
-- app.coffee
-- required_file.coffee
and app.coffee has the following code:
RequiredFile = require('./required_file')
# Do whatever you were gonna do.
This works great for us and I've been so happy with how quickly our builds run now that we use watchify.
However, lets say that we then change our project structure a little bit:
js
-- folder1
-- app.coffee
-- folder2
-- required_file.coffee
but the contents of app.coffee don't change so its still doing the following:
RequiredFile = require('./required_file')
# Do whatever you were gonna do.
Now, the problem is that it doesn't seem like either Watchify or Browserify have a problem with this, which I suspect might be because of some sort of caching that's going on.
However, as soon that code gets pushed to our repo and another team member pulls it down, Browserify immediately complains it can't find ./required_file anymore since the require statement is incorrect, it should be ../folder2/required_file.
Can anyone explain to me why this happens and how we can go about preventing it from happening going forward?
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I may not fully understand the wiki article on scoping, so forgive me if this sounds dumb.
Intro:
I have a solution (ABC.sln) with over 40 projects and am trying to implement OpenWrap for package management.
So I did the following in the solution's root folder:
o init-wrap -all
That worked fine: I now have a file called SLN.wrapdesc in the solution's root folder. All of the .csproj files in the subfolders contain the OpenWrap targets line.
I then proceded to add the different wraps to the solution with:
o add-wrap -Name xxx
Again, this worked fine: I have some wraps in the wraps folder, and the build doesn't break after removing the old references from the projects.
Problem:
All of the contents of the wraps are going to all of the projects, even for those that don't need it. I would like to be able to specify which wraps go where, eg AjaxControlToolkit only goes into web projects.
What I tried
First, I removed the AjaxControlToolkit from the wrapdesc:
o remove-wrap AjaxControlToolkit
This causes the build to break (as expected). Then I tried the following:
1. Try to add the wrap back with a scope:
o add-wrap -Name AjaxControlToolkit -scope webproject
This simply puts the wrap back in the wraps folder. I then added <OpenWrap-Scope>customscope</OpenWrap-Scope> to the project file, but the build still broke.
2. Try and manually add a file called ABC.webproject.wrapdesc to the root folder. This causes the following error when I try to open the solution:
The "exists" function only accepts a scalar value, but its argument "#(_WrapFile->'%(FullPath)')" evaluates to "D:\Projects\ABC.webproject.wrapdesc;D:\Projects\ABC.wrapdesc" which is not a scalar value.
I guess it doesn't like 2 wrapdesc files. That is strange because the wiki says "...you can add a second descriptor alongside your default descriptor..."
So now I'm stuck. Anyone have any ideas?
The per-msbuild file is really not a recommended approach to managing dependencies. Doing it per project is not quite the design philosophy behind OpenWrap, so the system is not quite optimized for those scenarios.
If you don't need something from those assemblies then the easiest way to solve it is to not use the references by not using any code from those packages. This solves the problem very easily as nothing will get loaded (or even need to be on disk) if no code has been added to it.
That said, add-wrap -scope newscope will create an additional .wrapdesc file that will add the new dependency to the new scope, by creating a myProject.newscope.wrapdesc file independently of the original myProject.wrapdesc.
If you do want to do this per-project, have you tried using the convention-based scoping? Something like:
directory-structure: src\*{scope: Web=WebProjects}*
Would take any project in a folder child of src containing Web in the name and assign those to the WebProjects scope.
I know that one has worked fine for my projects so far, although you do have to restart VS as it aggressively caches certain files and will not see the change.
Customizing the msbuild file itself is not fully tested (and the wiki entry was very much a design spec rather than final documentation, not all of it has been built that way) so it may or may not work. Happy to take a look if you can open a bug ticket on http://github.com/openrasta/openwrap/issues
I've been assigned to pick up a webapplication written in some old Perl Legacy code, get it working on our server to later extend it. The code was written 10 years ago by a solitary self-taught developer...
The code has weird stuff going on - they are not afraid to do lib-param.pl on line one, and later in the file do /lib-pl/lib-param.pl - which is offcourse a different file.
Including a.pl with methods b() and c() and later including d.pl with methods c() and e() seems to be quite popular too... Packages appear to be unknown, so you'll just find &c() somewhere in the code later.
Interesting questions:
Is there a tool that can draw relations between perl-files? Show a list of files used by each other file?
The same for MySQL databases and tables? Can it show which schema's/tables are used by which files?
Is there an IDE that knows which c() is called - the one in a.pl or the one in d.pl?
How would you start to try to understand the code?
I'm inclined to go through each file and refactor it, but am not allowed to do that - only the strict minimum to get the code working. (But since the code never uses strict, I don't know if I'm gonna...)
Not using strict is a mistake -- don't continue it. Move the stuff in d.pl to D.pm (or perhaps a better name alltogether), and if the code is procedural use Sub::Exporter to get those subs back into the calling package. strict is lexical, you can turn it on for just one package. Such as your new package D;. To find out which code is being called, use Devel::SimpleTrace.
perl -MDevel::SimpleTrace ./foo.pl
Now any warnings will be accompanied by a full back-log -- sprinkle warnings around the code and run it.
I think the MySQL question should be removed, from this. Schema Table mappings have nothing to do with perl, it seems an out of place distraction on this question.
I would write a utility to scan a complete list of all subs and which file they live in; then I would write a utility to give me a list of all function calls and which file they come from.
By the way - it is not terribly hard to write a fairly mindless static analysis tool to generate a call graph.
For many cases, in well-written code, that will be enough to help me out...
Each time I build a Catalyst application I come to a point where the application gets painfully slow to (re)start, the delay is about 10 seconds. Today I figured the delay is caused by the following lines:
use lib '/home/zoul/opt/lib/perl/5.8';
use lib '/home/zoul/opt/share/perl/5.8';
use lib '/home/zoul/opt/lib/perl/5.8.8';
use lib '/home/zoul/opt/share/perl/5.8.8';
These lines are only needed on the server, since I haven’t got root access there and have my Perl modules installed under ~/opt. (I can’t use Apache’s SetEnv module, since the hoster does not support it. Therefore I have to enter the library paths into App.pm.) On my development machine that exhibits the gory delay the paths do not exist.
My questions: (1) Why do the lines cause so much delay, about 7 seconds? (2) What’s a nice way to solve this? Naive conditional use does not work:
if ($on_the_hosting_machine)
{
use lib '…';
}
I guess I could eval somehow, or is there a better way?
I do not do Catalyst, so I am not sure if this is going solve your problem, but you can try to do what is essentially what lib.pm does:
BEGIN {
if ( $on_the_hosting_machine ) {
unshift #INC, qw'
/home/zoul/opt/lib/perl/5.8
/home/zoul/opt/share/perl/5.8
/home/zoul/opt/lib/perl/5.8.8
/home/zoul/opt/share/perl/5.8.8
';
}
};
1) Every time you have a use or require statement, it searches through all the directories in lib in order. Each use lib does (at least) two stat calls.
use lib is just a wrapper for pushing things onto #LIB... but it also searches for the presence of an arch directory and pushes that on to #LIB if it exists, too.
You can reverse the change using the no lib pragma:
no lib ('/home/zoul/opt/lib/perl/5.8', '/home/zoul/opt/share/perl/5.8', '/home/zoul/opt/lib/perl/5.8.8', '/home/zoul/opt/share/perl/5.8.8');
Better yet, you could modify your dev environment to match production, or even just symlink those directories to the real locations for your dev setup.
Check out "A Timely Start" by Jean-Louis Leroy on Perl.com. He describes the same problem and a clever fix for it.
Summary :
I have a project using GNU Autotools. I have a pot file. I need to update it. Is there a magical "make" task that run xgettext for me (I'm lazy ?)
Verbose version :
Hi
I am trying to setup a project using GNU autotools and gettext.
I'm trying to follow the 'lazy' path (that is, only writing configure.ac, Makefile.am, and such, and let tools generate the rest for me as much as possible).
I used gettextize once on my package, so I got a package.pot file created, and I derived a fr.po file (I'm trying to translate in french).
I never managed to get my code translated, but I figured out it might be because the code was not in the proper place. The translated string is in a lib instead of a main, and the documentation is quite unclear about what I must do in this case. If my main call a function in a lib, and the function from the lib is using _(). Should I use gettext of dgettext in this case ? My lib is just here for organisation purpose, so I'm okay with using the same domain (only one package.pot file for the whole app).
So, to try something simpler, I moved my string to the main (it's really just a hello world, for the moment). So I need to update the package.pot file, at least, to realize that the string position changed, need I ? In this case, would I use xgettext manually (painfully passing it the list of all interesting cpp files, which will be a pain in the ass when I have more than one file), or is there a 'make whatever' task somewhere that I can run ?
This may look stupid, but I've not been able to find it.
Also, any help on finding why my code is not translated, (anything not in http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/FAQ.html#integrating_noop) is welcome !
Thanks
PH
Ok, it turns out that :
there is a update-po task in the generated Makefile of the po/ folder, that does just what I want ;
this tasks looks to file referenced in the POTFILES.in file, which I had forgotten to update.
So it was something stupid.
I'm working on a very large CGI application that uses Crypt::RSA, which is properly installed. I get a "attempted to call a null reference as a function" type of error (I can't go back to get the exact error right now because we had to rollback for a release date) when I try to run any the embedded library. I trace the null reference to Crypt::RSA's constructor, which uses Class::Loader to enable Crypt::RSA::ES::OAEP.
I replaced the class loader with a "use" and a "new", and that part works fine, though the library still fails in many points. Obviously something is wrong with my environment. I'm just not certain as to what. Can anyone give me any leads?
Ok, after 12 hours of digging into it, I got this working.
Here's what was going on (but not why). Whenever I called eval() on a quoted use or require statement (as occurs in Class::Loader, but also in other locations in the Crypt:: framwork), it failed to see paths that were otherwise included as Perl classpaths. Since most quoted use/require objects simply assume the class will be there, very few useful errors were thrown out at me. I would dump #INC to file, outside an eval block, and everything would be there.
Ironically, I used the same setup in dev vs staging, and it worked in dev, but not in staging. I must also point out that FindBin (I shouldn't be using it in CGI, I know, but Crypt uses it) was flailing up and down about /dev/null in staging, but not in development.
Since I can't easily compare versions or global configs, that's where my quest ends.
How I resolved the issue for myself in Crypt::RSA was to disable all commands tied to FindBin, and hard-code require references for anything my code would ever access. I did a require in Crypt::RSA for Crypt::RSA::ES::OAEP and one in Crypt::Random::Generator for Crypt::Random::Provider::rand
Hope this helps anyone in the future who has the problem. Anyone who can suggest the why of it, please respond and I'll add it to complete the post.