Installation records what a module reports about itself. dpm_install_module
opens a module once, writes its version and description to a .meta file in
/var/lib/dpm/metadata/, and records the alternate names it declared in
modules.aliases beside it. dpm_uninstall_module removes both, leaving the
module file in place.
dpm_list_modules reads those records and opens no module. A module with no
record lists with a version of <uninstalled> and still loads when a caller
names it. An unreadable or absent metadata directory costs the listing its
detail and costs nothing else.
Aliases give a module alternate names, declared through the new
dpm_module_aliases contract symbol or added with dpm_add_module_alias. A
name is recorded once: one already serving as an alias, or belonging to an
installed module, is refused rather than repointed. dpm_require matches a
name against the installed modules, then the alias table, then the module
path.
The metadata directory is a fifth override field and the -M flag, and
[modules] metadata in core.conf.
The test suite is four binaries covering context, modules, records, and
aliases, each a ctest case of its own, alongside the CLI cases.
A module had one channel back to its caller: the int returned from
dpm_module_execute, handed through by dpm_execute. Any detail behind
that number could only reach a log, so a caller wanting the reason had
to read output rather than ask for it.
dpm_set_last_error joins the exported API. A module records its reason
on the context handed to its entry point, which belongs to the caller,
and the caller reads it back with dpm_get_last_error.
The two accessors on the context now say what they do to it:
dpm_module_path becomes dpm_get_resolved_module_path, naming the value
it reports rather than the setting it came from, and dpm_last_error
becomes dpm_get_last_error, pairing with the setter.
Path normalization moves to sanitizers.cpp, which holds the conversions
that put a value written by a person into the single form the library
stores it in.
context.cpp had grown to hold three unrelated concerns: the context
lifecycle, everything about the .conf file format, and everything about
writing a log message.
conf.cpp now owns the format end to end - parsing a file into the store,
reading values back out, and interpreting a configured string as the
boolean or log level a setting holds. logging.cpp owns the write path:
the level filter, the stream choice, and the name a level carries in
output.
context.cpp keeps what a context is: resolving each setting from the
override, the configured value, or the built-in default, and reporting
what it resolved.
clean removes what the build produced and leaves the configured build
system, so a build following it proceeds without reconfiguring. Deleting
the build system from clean broke that: the target lives in the Makefile
it removes, so nothing in the directory could drive a rebuild afterward.
distclean empties the directory, build system included. It is terminal —
the next step is `cmake -B <dir>` from outside — and it is what proves a
change against a tree carrying no state from earlier runs.
The library's version reached the build through project(), and reached
the library itself through a separate literal in version.cpp. The two
had to be kept equal by hand; the tests caught drift but the number was
written in both places.
CMakeLists.txt now reads DPM_CORE_VERSION_STR out of the source and
passes it to project(), so the soname, the artifact filenames, the
generated PDF's name, and the value the library reports all derive from
one line. Configuration fails outright if that declaration is missing.
SOVERSION follows PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR rather than a hardcoded 1.
The Doxygen configuration, the page list, and the docs target live in
docs/, and the written documents live in docs/PROSE/, leaving the
top-level file with the output paths and the add_subdirectory call.
The subdirectory is given its own binary directory so that CMake's
scaffolding stays out of the documentation output, which holds pdf/ and
html/ and nothing else.
Paths both files need are set once above the call: the child's output
and cleanup and the parent's clean rule refer to the same variables.
The fixture targets, the test binary, and the six test cases live beside
the sources they build, leaving the top-level file with enable_testing,
the ctest scratch-area write, and the add_subdirectory call.
The paths both files need are set once above that call, so the child's
output directories and the parent's clean rule refer to the same
variables rather than repeating the paths.
libdpm-core.so's version was reaching the source as a compile-line
definition, with a fallback in two translation units that would have let
the library build and report 0.0.0 if the build ever stopped supplying
it. The version is a literal in src/core/version.cpp, the file named for
it, alongside dpm_core_version() which returns it and the parser for the
X.Y.Z strings modules report.
The library's sources and its version script move to src/core, leaving
src/cli, src/bundled-modules, and the documentation source beside it.
src/documentation.cpp is the documentation loading source: it carries no
code and names each document that the generated reference contains, in
order, by page label. The labels are declared on each markdown file's
first heading. The build configuration lists the files as Doxygen inputs
and nothing more, so the structure of the documentation and the
mechanics of generating it are separate.
The hand-maintained document index at the end of OVERVIEW.md is gone,
along with the last references to markdown files by filename in the
public header. The document list exists in one place.
The docs target clears its output and scratch directories on every run.
Doxygen keeps output files it judges unchanged, so a run over a
populated scratch directory carried pages forward from earlier ones, and
removed sections survived in the generated HTML and PDF after their
source was edited.
The project version moves to 1.0.0, which the library soname, the
reported version, the test expectations, and the generated document
filename all derive from. SOVERSION now matches the major version.
The generated reference is built from the source and its documentation
comments alone. Prose from docs/ was briefly part of the input and is
removed: development notes are written and read on their own, and a
generator that reproduces them adds nothing. The reference opens on a
front page declared in the public header, followed by the module
contract.
One target builds it. Both PDF and HTML are produced by default, the
finished documents land in the build tree under docs/pdf and docs/html,
and the generators work in docs/tmp.
The internal namespace is dpm_core, matching the artifact name as
closely as a C++ identifier permits.
Building the docs target now generates the reference and leaves finished
documents in the build tree's docs directory: pdf/ holds the compiled
PDF, html/ holds the browsable reference when that format is enabled.
Doxygen and LaTeX work under docs/tmp/, which clean removes along with
the rest of the tree.
The reference has a front page and a structure. The markdown documents
in docs/ are part of the input, OVERVIEW.md becomes the landing page,
and the rest follow as chapters ahead of the namespace, class, and file
reference. The module contract, previously a plain comment block
invisible to Doxygen, is a page in its own right.
Struct and enum members throughout the headers carry documentation, on
their own lines above what they describe.
A module is built against the system-installed libdpm-core.so and is
responsible for being correct against it. Where it needs to act on the
version it is running under, dpm_core_version() reports that and the
module decides for itself.
dpm_module_core_min() is removed. It was a declaration handed to the
library to enforce on the module's behalf, and enforcement of that kind
belongs nowhere in a library that routes and hosts. The contract is now
three reserved symbols and load validation is two steps: the reserved
symbols resolve, and the version and description probes return
well-formed values.
compare_versions had no remaining caller and is removed; parse_version
stays for the well-formedness probe. The core_too_new fixture went with
the handshake it existed to exercise.
A module is addressed by name and command string, and nothing else.
Typed API access handed a caller a pointer into the callee's function
table, which meant compiling against that module's struct layout — a
build-time dependency between modules that the design does not permit.
Removing it also removes the manifest, the table magic constant, and
the table size field, which existed only to describe and validate
those tables.
Load validation is now three steps: reserved contract symbols resolve,
the minimum-version handshake passes, and the version and description
probes return well-formed values. The contract is four reserved
symbols, and a module's interface is the command vocabulary it
documents.
Documentation is brought in line, and artifacts are named exactly:
libdpm-core.so for the library, <dpm/core.h> for the header, the dpm
binary for the command-line tool.
dpm_require no longer takes a minimum version and applies no version
criterion of its own. A handle now means the module is valid, not that
it suits the caller. dpm_module_info_of is added alongside it, reporting
the name, version, description, and minimum-libdpm-core version read at
load, so a consuming module can judge a dependency's version for itself.
The one rule still enforced is the minimum-version handshake, where
libdpm-core is the host and refuses a module that demands a newer library
than the one running.
dpm_module_info_of joins the version script, so the exported surface is
now fourteen symbols under DPM_CORE_1.0.
Separately, the bare word "core" is gone from prose everywhere. It named
both the command-line tool and the library, so every use forced the
reader to guess which. Text now says "the dpm binary" or "libdpm-core".
Identifiers keep their spelling: libdpm-core, core.h, core.conf, the
"core" configuration namespace, dpm_core_version, core_min, DPM_CORE_1.0,
the dpmcore namespace, test_core, core_api.
Three user-visible strings changed with it: the load-refusal message now
reads "requires libdpm-core >= X, running libdpm-core is Y — update
libdpm-core", and the info module's description and help text name the
library. The test asserting on the refusal text was updated to match.
DESIGN.md's terminology line no longer defines "DPM Core" as the CLI,
which was the source of the ambiguity. OVERVIEW.md is restructured around
the three layers a reader meets DPM at — user, developer, filesystem —
so a code-level symbol never appears without saying whose layer it is.
MODULES.md describes the bundled info module as testing and demonstrating
full DPM system functionality rather than as a reference implementation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
clean was deleting the generated build system along with the artifacts —
CMakeCache.txt, the makefiles, CMakeFiles/, the CMake file API directory,
and the CTest configuration. That left the build directory unconfigured
after every clean, so an IDE reading its target list from the file API
lost every target until the project was reloaded. clean now removes only
what the build produced.
Also writes CTest's scratch directory into DartConfiguration.tcl so a bare
ctest and IDE test discovery use it too, not just build-driven runs.
BUILD.md no longer lists libdl as a dependency; glibc 2.34 merged it into
libc, so nothing links against it. The code-reference section moves to its
own DOCUMENTATION.md.
The fixture config logged at ERROR while the info module emits its output
at INFO, so the CLI invocation BUILD.md documents exited 0 and printed
nothing. The fixture now logs at INFO and the documented command works as
written.
OVERVIEW.md describes what DPM is, how core routes and validates modules,
and why the architecture takes the shape it does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
