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supervisor

Overview

• Mostly just driving the compilation.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Setting Up
  • Supervisor Module- Setting up the use of this module.
  • Inbuild Control- Who shall supervise the supervisor? This section of code will.
• Chapter 2: Conceptual Framework
  • Genres - The different sorts of work managed by inbuild.
  • Works - To store, hash code and compare title/author pairs used to identify works.
  • Editions - An edition is a numbered version of a work.
  • Copies - A copy is an instance in the file system of a specific edition of a work.
  • Copy Errors - A copy error is attached to a copy when scanning it reveals some malformation.
  • Requirements- A requirement is a way to specify some subset of works: for example, those with a given title, and/or version number.
  • Nests - Nests are repositories of Inform-related resources.
  • Registries - Registries are nests provided with metadata and intended to be presented as an online source from which Inform resources can be downloaded.
  • JSON Metadata - Managing JSON-encoded metadata files for resources such as kits.
• Chapter 3: Incremental Builds
  • Build Graphs - Graphs in which vertices correspond to files or copies, and edges to dependencies between them.
  • Build Methodology- Whether to run tasks internally in some merged tool, or run via the shell, or simply trace to the standard output what we think ought to be done.
  • Incremental Building- Deciding what is the least possible amount which needs to be built, in what order, to arrive at a working version of a copy.
  • Build Scripts - Scripts are nothing more than lists of build steps.
  • Build Steps- A build step is a task which exercises one of the build skills.
  • Inter Skill - The skills of kit building and of code generation from Inter.
  • Inform7 Skill - The skill of turning source text into Inter code.
  • Inform6 Skill - The skill of compiling Inform 6 into a story file for the target VM.
  • Inblorb Skill - The skill of packaging a story file and associated resources into a blorb.
• Chapter 4: Genre Management
  • Extension Manager - Claiming and creating copies of the extension genre: used for Inform 7 extensions.
  • Kit Manager - Claiming and creating copies of the kit genre: used for kits of precompiled Inter code.
  • Language Manager - Claiming and creating copies of the language genre: used for bundles of natural language metadata in the Inform 7 compiler.
  • Pipeline Manager- Claiming and creating copies of the pipeline genre: used for pipelines of code-generation stages.
  • Project Bundle Manager- Claiming and creating copies of the projectbundle genre: used for Inform 7 projects as created by the GUI apps.
  • Project File Manager - Claiming and creating copies of the projectfile genre: used for Inform 7 source texts stored as stand-alone plain text files, outside the GUI apps.
  • Template Manager- Claiming and creating copies of the template genre: used for website and interpreter templates when releasing an Inform project.
• Chapter 5: Genre Services
  • Extension Services - Behaviour specific to copies of the extension genre.
  • Kit Services- Behaviour specific to copies of the kit genre.
  • Language Services - Behaviour specific to copies of the language genre.
  • Pipeline Services - Behaviour specific to copies of the pipeline genre.
  • Project Services - Behaviour specific to copies of either the projectbundle or projectfile genres.
  • Template Services - Behaviour specific to copies of the template genre.
• Chapter 6: Inform Source Text
  • Source Text- Using the lexer and syntax analysis modules to read in Inform 7 source text.
  • Headings- To keep track of the hierarchy of headings and subheadings found in the source text.
  • The Options File - The optional file of Options applied to all of the user's projects.
  • Inclusions- To fulfill requests to include extensions, adding their material to the parse tree as needed, and removing INCLUDE nodes.
  • Control Structures- To specify the syntax of control structures such as repeat, if and otherwise.
  • Virtual Machine Grammar - Grammar for parsing natural language descriptions of a virtual machine.
• Chapter 7: Extension Indexing
  • The Mini-Website- To refresh the mini-website of available extensions presented in the Inform GUI applications.
  • Dictionary - To maintain a database of names and constructions in all extensions so far used by this installation of Inform, and spot potential namespace clashes.
  • Census - To conduct a census of all installed extensions installed.
  • Index Pages - To generate the two top-level pages in the extension mini-website.
  • Individual Pages- To generate the individual pages on extensions in the extension mini-website.