During pill and install prop generation.
In autopill, we stop tracking a copy of the blob store, instead just
having the pill lib scry it out on-demand.
`+story-list` produced janky indentation because the `$-(story
wain)` functions encoded linefeeds in the cords of the wain and the
printer doesn't like this.
Story printing functions have been changed to produce pure wains without
linefeeds.
This allows you to pass a thread directly into khan, instead of passing
a filename. This has several implications:
- The friction for using threads from an app is significantly lower.
Consider:
=/ shed
=/ m (strand ,vase)
;< ~ bind:m (poke:strandio [our %hood] %helm-hi !>('hi'))
;< ~ bind:m (poke:strandio [our %hood] %helm-hi !>('there'))
(pure:m !>('product'))
[%pass /wire %arvo %k %lard %base shed]
- These threads close over their subject, so you don't need to parse
arguments out from a vase -- you can just refer to them. The produced
value must still be a vase.
++ hi-ship
|= [=ship msg1=@t msg2=@t]
=/ shed
=/ m (strand ,vase)
;< ~ bind:m (poke:strandio [ship %hood] %helm-hi !>(msg1))
;< ~ bind:m (poke:strandio [ship %hood] %helm-hi !>(msg2))
(pure:m !>('product'))
[%pass /wire %arvo %k %lard %base shed]
- Inline threads can be added to the dojo, though this PR does not add
any sugar for this.
=strandio -build-file %/lib/strandio/hoon
=sh |= message=@t
=/ m (strand:rand ,vase)
;< ~ bind:m (poke:strandio [our %hood] %helm-hi !>('hi'))
;< ~ bind:m (poke:strandio [our %hood] %helm-hi !>(message))
(pure:m !>('product'))
|pass [%k %lard %base (sh 'the message')]
Implementation notes:
- Review the commits separately: the first is small and implements the
real feature. The second moves the strand types into lull so khan can
refer to them.
- In lull, I wanted to put +rand inside +khan, but this fails to that
issue that puts the compiler in a loop. +rand depends on +gall, which
depends on +sign-arvo, which depends on +khan. If +rand is in +khan,
this spins the compiler. The usual solution is to either move
everything into the same battery (very ugly here) or break the
recursion (which we do here).
When the first byte is greater or equal to 0xfd, (bex len) bytes are consumed to
form the csiz atom, but only one byte is dropped from the 'rest' of the input.
The parser should consume all bytes of the CompactSize.
Previously, the initial Azimuth snapshot was stored in Clay and shipped
in the pill. This causes several problems:
- It bloats the pill
- Updating the snapshot added large blobs to Clay's state. Even now
that tombstoning is possible, you don't want to have to do that
regularly.
- As a result, the snapshot was never updated.
- Even if you did tombstone those files, it could only be updated as
often as the pill
- And those updates would be sent over the network to people who didn't
need them
This moves the snapshot out of the pill and refactors Azimuth's
initialization process. On boot, when app/azimuth starts up, it first
downloads a snapshot from bootstrap.urbit.org and uses that to
initialize its state. As before, updates after this initial snapshot
come from an Ethereum node directly and are verified locally.
Relevant commands are:
- `-azimuth-snap-state %filename` creates a snapshot file
- `-azimuth-load "url"` downloads and inits from a snapshot, with url
defaulting to https://bootstrap.urbit.org/mainnet.azimuth-snapshot
- `:azimuth &azimuth-poke-data %load snap-state` takes a snap-state any
way you have it
Note the snapshot is downloaded from the same place as the pill, so this
doesn't introduce additional trust beyond what was already required.
When remote scry is released, we should consider allowing downloading
the snapshot in that way.
