Re: [ELPA] New package: dired-duplicates

[Harald Judt]

On 2023-11-09 at 10:18, Harald Judt wrote:
> On 2023-11-09 at 09:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:>> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 09:00:11 
> +0100
> > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > From: Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>
> > >
> > > > The size limitation should have its default value dependent on whether
> > > > the build is a 32-bit (which we still support) or 64-bit.  You can
> > > > look at how we compute treesit-max-buffer-size, to figure out how to
> > > > express the conditions for the default value.
> > >
> > > Yes, but I wonder, why do this? There can be 32-bit systems as well as 64-bit
> > > systems that can have only 2GiB RAM, both might fail when trying to open a
> > > file that has e.g. 1536MiB. Then, there might be both types of systems that
> > > have 8gb of RAM that can open such files with no problems?
> >
> > If you are saying that we can do with a single value, I'm okay with
> > that, provided that this value will be accepted by users.  32-bit
> > systems cannot have buffers larger than 2 GiB, and a reasonable limit
> > would be something like 500 MiB, I think.  This could be too low for
> > users of 64-bit systems, but if it's okay, it's fine with me.  Your
> > proposed default, 1 GiB, is too large for a typical 32-bit system,
> > IMO.
> >
> > > Maybe it would be possible to make it dependent on the amount of RAM available
> > > on the system?
> >
> > Ideally, yes, but in practice knowing how much is available is not
> > that easy on a modern OS, so I don't think it's worth the hassle,
> > especially in fallback code.
>
> I agree, 500M for 32-bit and 1G for 64-bit are good defaults for the 
> dired-duplicates use-case, I guess most typical systems will be able to handle 
> it. I will implement it this way.
>
> Harald

Ok, I have pushed these changes and bumped the version to 0.2 and I hope that 
this time the package builds correctly on ELPA (the last time it failed though 
it loads and compiles on my machine). Where would I find that file 
dired-duplicates-build-failure.txt in the GNU ELPA archive web site?

The output from the previous run was:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The build scripts failed to build the tarball
for version 0.1 of the package dired-duplicates.
You can consult the latest error output in the file
"dired-duplicates-build-failure.txt" in the GNU ELPA archive web site.

You can also try and reproduce the error locally as follows:

    git clone --single-branch https://git.sv.gnu.org/git/emacs/elpa.git
    cd elpa
    make                            # Setup the infrastructure
    make packages/dired-duplicates  # Create a worktree of the package
    make build/dired-duplicates     # Build the tarballs into archive(-devel)/

## The current error output was the following:

======== Building tarball archive/dired-duplicates-0.1.tar...
Build error for archive/dired-duplicates-0.1.tar: (error "Can't find main file 
home/elpa/elpa/packages/dired-duplicates/dired-duplicates.el file in 
/home/elpa/elpa/packages/dired-duplicates")
######## Build of package archive/dired-duplicates-0.1.tar FAILED!!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Harald

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