This change fixes a whole host of issues with our current token binding logic. There are two primary aspects of this change: First, the prior token syntax was ambiguous, due to our choice of delimiter characters. For instance, "/" could be used both as a module member delimiter, in addition to being a valid character for sub-modules. The result is that we could not look at a token and know for certain which kind it is. There was also some annoyance with "." being the delimiter for class members in addition to being the leading character for special names like ".this", ".super", and ".ctor". Now, we just use ":" as the delimiter character for everything. The result is unambiguous. Second, the simplistic token table lookup really doesn't work. This is for three reasons: 1) decorated types like arrays, maps, pointers, and functions shouldn't need token lookup in the classical sense; 2) largely because of decorated naming, the mapping of token pieces to symbolic information isn't straightforward and requires parsing; 3) default modules need to be expanded and the old method only worked for simple cases and, in particular, would not work when combined with decorated names. |
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README.md |
Mu
Mu is a framework and toolset for creating reusable stacks of services.
If you are learning about Mu for the first time, please see the overview document.
Architecture
Prerequisites
Mu is written in Go and uses Glide for dependency management. They must be installed:
If you wish to use the optional lint
make target, you'll also need to install Golint:
go get -u github.com/golang/lint/golint
Building and Testing
To build Mu, first clone it into a standard Go workspace:
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo
$ git clone git@github.com:marapongo/mu $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo/mu
A good default value for GOPATH
is ~/go
.
Mu needs to know where to look for its runtime, library, etc. By default, it will look in /usr/local/mu
, however you
can override this with the MUPATH
variable. Normally it's easiest just to create a symlink:
$ ln -s $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo/mu /usr/local/mu
There is one additional build-time dependency, golint
, which can be installed using:
$ go get -u github.com/golang/lint/golint
And placed on your path by:
$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
At this point you should be able to build and run tests from the root directory:
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo/mu
$ glide update
$ make
This installs the mu
binary into $GOPATH/bin
, which may now be run provided make
exited successfully.
Compilers
The Mu compilers are built and tested independently from the Mu tool and runtime written in Go. Please see the respective pages for details on this process for each compiler:
Debugging
The Mu tools have extensive logging built in. In fact, we encourage liberal logging in new code, and addding new logging when debugging problems. This helps to ensure future debugging endeavors benefit from your sleuthing.
All logging is done using Google's Glog library. It is relatively barebones, and adds basic leveled logging, stack dumping, and other capabilities beyond what Go's built-in logging routines offer.
The Mu command line has two flags that control this logging and that can come in handy when debugging problems. The
--logtostderr
flag spews directly to stderr, rather than the default of logging to files in your temp directory. And
the --verbose=n
flag (-v=n
for short) sets the logging level to n
. Anything greater than 3 is reserved for
debug-level logging, greater than 5 is going to be quite verbose, and anything beyond 7 is extremely noisy.
For example, the command
$ mu compile blueprint.yaml --logtostderr -v=5
is a pretty standard starting point during debugging that will show a fairly comprehensive trace log of a compilation.