While we support initializing records via coercion from an expression
list, e.g.,
local x: X = [$x1=1, $x2=2];
this can sometimes obscure the code to readers, e.g., when assigning to
value declared and typed elsewhere. The language runtime has a similar
overhead since instead of just constructing a known type it needs to
check at runtime that the coercion from the expression list is valid;
this can be slower than just writing the readible code in the first
place, see #4559.
With this patch we use explicit construction, e.g.,
local x = X($x1=1, $x2=2);
This reflects the `spicy-plugin` code as of `d8c296b81cc2a11`.
In addition to moving the code into Zeek's source tree, this comes
with a couple small functional changes:
- `spicyz` no longer tries to infer if it's running from the build
directory. Instead `ZEEK_SPICY_LIBRARY` can be set to a custom
location. `zeek-set-path.sh` does that now.
- ZEEK_CONFIG can be set to change what `spicyz -z` print out. This is
primarily for backwards compatibility.
Some further notes on specifics:
- We raise the minimum Spicy version to 1.8 (i.e., current `main`
branch).
- Renamed the `compiler/` subdirectory to `spicyz` to avoid
include-path conflicts with the Spicy headers.
- In `cmake/`, the corresponding PR brings a new/extended version of
`FindZeek`, which Spicy analyzer packages need. We also now install
some of the files that the Spicy plugin used to bring for testing,
so that existing packages keep working.
- For now, this all remains backwards compatible with the current
`zkg` analyzer templates so that they work with both external and
integrated Spicy support. Later, once we don't need to support any
external Spicy plugin versions anymore, we can clean up the
templates as well.
- All the plugin's tests have moved into the standard test suite. They
are skipped if configure with `--disable-spicy`.
This holds off on adapting the new code further to Zeek's coding
conventions, so that it remains easier to maintain it in parallel to
the (now legacy) external plugin. We'll make a pass over the
formatting for (presumable) Zeek 6.1.
