Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: Package Review AssignedTo: nobody@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: stlwrt@gmail.com QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: fedora-package-review@redhat.com,notting@redhat.com
Spec URL: http://rpm.scwlab.com/embryo-goes-rawhide/embryo.spec SRPM URL: http://rpm.scwlab.com/embryo-goes-rawhide/embryo-0.9.1.042-1.fc9.src.rpm Description: Embryo is primarily a shared library that gives you an API to load and control interpreted programs compiled into an abstract machine bytecode that it understands. This abstract (or virtual) machine is similar to a real machine with a CPU, but it is emulated in software. The architecture is simple and is the same as the abstract machine (AMX) in the PAWN language (formerly called SMALL) as it is based on exactly the same code. Embryo has modified the code for the AMX extensively and has made it smaller and more portable. It is VERY small. The total size of the virtual machine code AND header files is less than 2500 lines of code. It includes the floating point library support by default as well. This makes it one of the smallest interpreters around, and thus makes is very efficient to use in code.
RPMLint is silent on all RPMs i built. License is a bit customized, but Tom "spot" Callawayin from fedora-legal-list said it's MIT ( https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2008-April/msg00020.html ) I've been able to successfully use rpms built in mock on different machine to build software against this library.
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
stlwrt@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OtherBugsDependingO| |177841 nThis| |
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-04-13 13:22 EST ------- Woops, forgot to include: i386 and x86_64 RPMs built in mock: http://rpm.scwlab.com/embryo-goes-rawhide/
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
stlwrt@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OtherBugsDependingO| |442437 nThis| |
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-04-19 17:17 EST ------- Improved spec. New spec: http://rpm.scwlab.com/embryo-goes-rawhide/embryo.spec New SRPM: http://rpm.scwlab.com/embryo-goes-rawhide/ embryo-0.9.1.042-2.fc9.src.rpm
* Sat Apr 19 2008 Pavel "Stalwart" Shevchuk stlwrt@gmail.com - 0.9.1.042-2 - Fixed timestamp of source tarball - Preserve timestamps of installed files - Added html docs - Added missing dependencies for embryo-devel - Added workaround for bug in embryo.pc. Proper fix is commited upstream
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
stlwrt@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OtherBugsDependingO|177841 | nThis| |
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-05-01 21:18 EST ------- Fixed doxygen multilib issue.
New spec: http://rpm.scwlab.com/embryo-goes-rawhide/embryo.spec New SRPM: http://rpm.scwlab.com/fedora/e/9/embryo-0.9.1.042-3.x86_64/ embryo-0.9.1.042-3.fc9.src.rpm Built RPMs: http://rpm.scwlab.com/fedora/e/9/
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From pertusus@free.fr 2008-05-05 05:57 EST ------- an incidental backtrace of embryo_cc -i
$ gdb --args embryo_cc -i GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-1.fc9) Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"... (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/embryo_cc -i
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0804ff26 in sc_compile (argc=2, argv=0xbfd15af4) at embryo_cc_sc1.c:631 631 if (!strcmp (argv[i], "-i") && *argv[i + 1]) (gdb) bt #0 0x0804ff26 in sc_compile (argc=2, argv=0xbfd15af4) at embryo_cc_sc1.c:631 #1 0x08050b83 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfd15af4, env=Cannot access memory at address 0x35 ) at embryo_cc_sc1.c:149
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From pertusus@free.fr 2008-05-05 11:09 EST ------- It seems to me that embryo_cc and the /usr/share/embryo/include/default.inc file should be separated from the shared library. It seems to me that it would be better in the devel package, and even better in a separate package. Either call it embryo and have the shared libs in embryo-libs, or put the shared libs in embryo and cann the package containing embryo_cc along embryo_cc or embryo-cc. I would prefer to have share libs in a -libs subpackage.
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-05-05 12:45 EST ------- Embryo is for scripting existing applications, similar to LUA, and embryo scripts are usually distributed as source code. It's not the case of C compiler, such scripts are compiled and ran by regular users.
[stalwart@delta ~]$ rpm -ql lua.x86_64 | grep bin /usr/bin/lua /usr/bin/luac
LUA ships compiler in one package with libs.
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-05-05 16:49 EST ------- * Mon May 05 2008 Pavel "Stalwart" Shevchuk stlwrt@gmail.com - 0.9.1.042-4 - Added workaround for segfault on incorrect arguments to embryo_cc
New spec: http://rpm.scwlab.com/embryo-goes-rawhide/embryo.spec New SRPM: http://rpm.scwlab.com/fedora/e/9/embryo-0.9.1.042-4.fc9.x86_64/ embryo-0.9.1.042-4.fc9.src.rpm Built RPMs: http://rpm.scwlab.com/fedora/e/9/
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From pertusus@free.fr 2008-05-06 03:23 EST ------- (In reply to comment #6)
Embryo is for scripting existing applications, similar to LUA, and embryo scripts are usually distributed as source code. It's not the case of C compiler, such scripts are compiled and ran by regular users.
LUA ships compiler in one package with libs.
Indeed, but in the case of embryo, it seems to be much more common to use directly the libs. And e17 packages depending on embryo only use the libs, so it seems to me that putting the interpreter in its own pacage (with name embryo) would be better, in order not to install the interpretr if not needed. Moreover the interpreter (in contrast with the one embedded in the libs) seems to be less well maintained (reading the README). Also, unless I am missing something the %description is mostly for the -libs package, the interpreter has still not been that much modified.
Now regarding the segfault, in my opinion it is much better to do a patch (and submit it upstream). A sed substitution will silently fail and in general is less readable. In the end it depends on the packager, but in my opinion the change in argv should be a patch, while the 2 other sed substitutions are right.
As a side note, this segfault is also an indication that the interpretor is not widely used.
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-05-06 05:31 EST ------- lib executes code only in form of bytecode, and embryo_cc is the only way to convert human-readable code to bytecode. I still insist on having embryo_cc in default package.
Argument parser patch was upstreamed few minutes ago. I will remove sed expression when new snapshot or 1.0.0 of embryo will be released (e17 project leader said it's in RC stage already)
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From pertusus@free.fr 2008-05-06 05:52 EST ------- Ok, I just noticed that embryo_cc is used in one of the edje programs, so looks like you are right. Also rereading the library doc, it is clearly stated there. I'll review formally now.
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
pertusus@free.fr changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|nobody@fedoraproject.org |pertusus@free.fr Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Flag| |fedora-review+
------- Additional Comments From pertusus@free.fr 2008-05-06 05:56 EST ------- * rpmlint is silent * follow packaging guidelines * pseudo MIT license included * match upstream d6f08bb2eb9c5c466eef7c1951d3f6ba embryo-0.9.1.042.tar.bz2 * %files section right * library correctly packaged
APPROVED
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
------- Additional Comments From pertusus@free.fr 2008-05-06 06:00 EST ------- 2 things I overlooked, though:
* The BuildRequires are better at the beginning * A Requires for pkgconfig missing for -devel. * I suggest usind the sed line to keep a footer like in other e* libraries
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
stlwrt@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag| |fedora-cvs?
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-05-06 06:20 EST ------- New Package CVS Request ======================= Package Name: embryo Short Description: Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs Owners: stalwart Branches: F-8 F-9 InitialCC: Cvsextras Commits: yes
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
kevin@tummy.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag|fedora-cvs? |fedora-cvs+
------- Additional Comments From kevin@tummy.com 2008-05-06 12:19 EST ------- cvs done.
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: embryo - Easy to use library for running compiled PAWN programs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442266
stlwrt@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |CLOSED Resolution| |NEXTRELEASE
------- Additional Comments From stlwrt@gmail.com 2008-05-06 13:37 EST ------- Koji finished building package. Thanks to everyone!
package-review@lists.fedoraproject.org