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46 lines
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About libscriptfu
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libscriptfu is part of PIKA.
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It is not generally useful except by PIKA.
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The libscriptfu library is used by plugin executables,
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and the PDB procedures they create,
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all part of the "ScriptFu" machinery.
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The libscriptfu library is not intended for third-party developers,
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only for core PIKA developers.
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Headers for libscriptfu might not be installed.
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This directory contains three libraries: libscriptfu, tinyscheme, and ftx.
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The tinyscheme library contains a TinyScheme interpreter.
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The ftx library extends the TinyScheme interpreter,
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adding file functions to the Scheme language.
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The libscriptfu library contains both the tinyscheme and ftx libraries.
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The libscriptfu library wraps the TinyScheme interpreter,
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specializing it for PIKA.
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The script-fu executable uses the libscriptfu library,
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to interpret Scheme scripts that PIKA users refer to as "plug-ins."
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These libraries depend on other libraries, e.g. math, libpika, glib, etc.
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Coupling between the executables and the libraries should be in one direction:
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source for the inner libs should not include headers from the outer executables.
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This lets you more easily update the inner libraries
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(which originated elsewhere and might be maintained elsewhere),
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and change the outer executables
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(which are subject to change by PIKA developers.)
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Example (which may change):
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The script-fu executable is a plugin file that implements PDB procedures:
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extension-script-fu, script-fu-console, script-fu-text-console, script-fu-eval,
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and script-fu-server.
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Each of those PDB procedures runs as a separate process.
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Each of those processes uses libscriptfu.
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The main PDB procedure is extension-script-fu, which is a long-lived process.
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It is a PDB procedure of PDBProcedureType EXTENSION.
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It interprets the Scheme scripts that user's call "plug-ins."
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Rarely two of the PDB procedure processes run concurrently.
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When they do, and libscriptfu is built as a shared library,
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the read-only, code portion of the library is only loaded in memory once.
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