This might benefit from a recache of the linux banners, although it
should continue to work no recache is performed.
We're now in a position to add support for loading symbols directly from
zip files by altering the ResourceAccessor and adding code to the
symbol finder.
Note: also remove interfaces_configuration where ever possible
(this is not possible in the interfaces directory itself
because it would cause an import loop).
Refactored the location of the progress_callback so that the UI can
specify it and ensure it is used by the automagics process as well as
the plugins themselves.
The progress_callback function has also had an optional description parameter
added, so that it can differentiated in case two scans happen
simultaneously.
This also adds support for manually constructed configurables to
populate the config tree in the current context.
I'm still toying around with this though, I need to figure out
what to do with optional values and think the whole thing through
to make sure it's worthwhile.
This one's slightly contencious, in that scanner now don't all return a
uniform value, and therefore nothing can simply run through scanners.
Worst case scenario we make a separate stricter interface that says it
only returns offsets which will then allow things that need it to
dynamically find them, but it's probably too useful to be able to return
arbitrary objects of a type (as long as the objects returned are always
of that type).
So this is where I ripped out the guts of the dependency tree
and made it a little better defined in some ways, and delayed
populating it in others. The validate function signature has
changed and I'm still up in the air whether to validate with
True/False or throw/catch exceptions.
So now, configurables have a list of requirements, these are
then bundled into a single requirement and can be passed to
automagic. Automagic runs a set of things over the deptree
to help build/manage it. These run in order of priority.
The tree is still built from the top down, but now automagic
can build branch from the bottom up and try and splice them
into the tree where appropriate. Hopefully this will make it
easier to see follow.
Mike Auty