I think it's already ripped out in trunk, for dynamic dataset loading, it's
just the compile time datasets still use it, if I recall correctly. So most
of the code is there, I don't think it would be difficult (famous last word)
to back port the code to emit
LzInstantiateView of LzDataset, instead of inlining the datasets.

On 2/7/07, P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I already backported the string fix "by accident".

We'd need a readout from the 'ad hoc binary library design
committee' (cc-ed) to know if ripping out the data compiler from
trunk is acceptable.

On 2007-02-07, at 13:45 EST, Henry Minsky wrote:

> I might be able to do some hack with backporting the legals code for
> initializing datasets  from XML strings. We'd have to backport the
> compiler
> fix for strings longer than 64K if they have static datasets that
> large...
>
>
>
>
> On 2/7/07, P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I think I punted on datasets.  Now I have to look harder.
>> Actually, if you want to pitch in here, it would be great.  The 3.4
>> dataset way just can't work in binary libraries as currently spec-
>> ed.  We'd have to treat them more like resources -- just save the LZX
>> to the binary so that it can be compiled correctly when the binary is
>> linked in.
>>
>> On 2007-02-07, at 12:36 EST, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>
>> > We had a big change about how top level datasets are compiled into
>> > apps
>> > between 3.4 and legals; in 3.4 they are inlined as swf byte code to
>> > build
>> > the dataset, whereas in
>> > legals they are compiled in as XML strings that get passed as init
>> > arg  to a
>> > LzDataset to get parsed and instantiated at runtime. I thought I
>> saw
>> > something in ptw's changeset that was special casing datasets to
>> > not be put
>> > into in libraries? I need to look again...
>> >
>> > On 2/7/07, P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 2007-02-07, at 11:16 EST, Jim Grandy wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Adam Wolff wrote:
>> >> >> diamond relies on the behavior where if I don't specify a file
>> >> name
>> >> >> for a directory in an include, it looks for the library.lzx
>> file
>> >> >> in that
>> >> >> directory. e.g.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>     <include href="foo/bar"/>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Actually includes
>> >> >>     foo/bar/library.lzx
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Is this documented behavior? The comments at the top of lps/
>> >> > components/library.lzx &co. suggest these files are only used by
>> >> > the documentation generator. Assuming that is true, I've been
>> >> > modifying the library.lzx files in the components to suit the
>> >> > refguide.
>> >>
>> >> I don't know where it is documented, but the compiler will
>> definitely
>> >> implicitly add library.lzx to a directory in an include (and
>> has done
>> >> so for as long as I can remember).
>> >>
>> >> The binary library changes make the compiler search for
>> library.lzo
>> >> before loading library.lzx.
>> >>
>> >> It is _supposed_ to be the case that if your library contains
>> auto-
>> >> includes, and you binary compile your library, the auto-
>> includes will
>> >> _not_ be included in the binary, but will be auto-loaded when you
>> >> load your library (trying to mimic as much as possible the normal
>> >> library behavior).
>> >>
>> >> Pablo's test reveals another screw-case that is not handled:  You
>> >> include a library and  elsewhere in your program also a sub-
>> library
>> >> of that library.  Then you binary-compile the library.  The binary
>> >> library gets loaded, but the compiler does not realize that that
>> >> implies the sub-library is also loaded, so it tries to re-load the
>> >> sub-library and creates duplicate definition warnings.  I will
>> have
>> >> to add some annotation to binary libraries to note all the sub-
>> >> libraries that comprise the library. [er, Mr. Strunk, did I use
>> that
>> >> word correctly?  I've always wanted to find a use for it.]
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Henry Minsky
>> > Software Architect
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
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