[Laszlo-dev] Anyone else seeing these cache errors?

[P T Withington]

Yikes.  Good point.  At the very least, maybe we'd bette have them use  
separate directories.  Which should be easy now... :)

On 2008-04-08, at 18:15 EDT, Donald Anderson wrote:
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> On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:50 PM, P T Withington wrote:
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>> On 2008-04-08, at 08:53 EDT, Donald Anderson wrote:
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>>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:50 PM, P T Withington wrote:
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>>>> lzunit-basedatacombobox.lzx:1:59: file not found: /Users/ptw/ 
>>>> OpenLaszlo/ringding-clean/WEB-INF/lps/work/scache/ 
>>>> 1207603704614.swf (No such file or directory). IOException in  
>>>> compilation/script-cache
>>>>
>>>> I keep getting them.  Clearing the cache makes them go away, but  
>>>> I'm wondering if we broke something recently trying to implement  
>>>> the changeable cache dirs?
>>>
>>> Possible to be sure, but I've looked at the changes again, and  
>>> don't see
>>> what has changed when you don't use these options.  I even left  
>>> Henry's
>>> modification in place (in trunk only):
>>>
>>>      // TODO [hqm 2008-01] I set this to true because when working  
>>> on
>>>      // the LFC, I frequently get screwed by using cached script.
>>>      boolean flushScriptCache = true;
>>>
>>> That should flush the cache every time you run lzc.
>>
>> Right, but I am seeing the error when loading through the server  
>> into a browser, not with lzc.  Maybe not related, but a surprising  
>> synchronicity.
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>
> Hmm.  As you know, the recent code change is in compiler/Main.java,  
> should only affect running lzc.
> Although mixing lzc runs with browser runs could make it relevant.
>
> How about this?  The script cache for the browser points to the same  
> place as the script cache
> when used by lzc.  (they are both under the lps directory).  BUT --  
> they are running in two different
> jvms, and one of these (lzc) is hardwired to clear the cache each  
> time.  Ooops.
>
>   browser:            compile foo.lzc    puts foo.swf into cache
>   lzc:      compile bar.lzc      CLEAR cache, and then compile and  
> put bar.swf into cache.
>   browser (still running):    compiler foo.lzc,  look for it in the  
> cache, it's gone!
>
> I think it's time for that 'flush the cache' hack to be removed.
> The appearance of the bug is probably coincident with the merge of  
> devildog, now
> we all are more often running both lzc and browser out of the same  
> directory.
>
> - Don
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