Forum OpenACS Development: Sourcing of -init.tcl files

The problem with this setup is that most of the -init.tcl files do setup that should only be executed once such as shared memory initialization with nsv and scheduling of procs with ad_schedule_proc. My first idea for a solution was to provide a proc called apm_source_once so that you could have in your -init.tcl file something like:

apm_source_once {
  # Setup shared memory data
  nsv_set ...

  ad_schedule_proc...
}

# Execute code that is not shared across interpreters here
...

The problem with this setup is that I have to add the apm_source_once to just about all contents of all current -init.tcl files and it is error prone as programmers may forget to use it.

I therefore suggest that -init.tcl files are only sourced once upon installation. The worst thing that can happen with this approach is that a package that keeps something in its init file that needs to be sourced in all interpreters cannot be used until the server is restarted.

I have noticed a couple of ad_proc definitions in -init.tcl files but these could easily be moved to -procs.tcl files.

If anybody knows of code in any -init.tcl file that needs to be sourced in every interpreter - let me know.

Thanks!

Peter

The stumbling block I ran into is that the procs of a newly installed package wouldn't be available in the interpreter that executes a scheduled procedure setup by the -init.tcl file. I guess if there is a way to load procs into all Tcl interpreters in AOLServer we would have a solution. I'm not spending any more time investigating this right now though.