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17 years agoez_setup.py: put back the warning about downloading, but only if the URL that you...
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:14:51 +0000 (20:14 -0700)]
ez_setup.py: put back the warning about downloading, but only if the URL that you are using is not "file:"

17 years agoREADME: it works on Python 2.4 on Windows
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:17:30 +0000 (19:17 -0700)]
README: it works on Python 2.4 on Windows

17 years agodon't try to use bindann
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:14:46 +0000 (19:14 -0700)]
don't try to use bindann
It causes a mysterious misbehavior in Python import which causes the previous patch to fail (the patch to not run trial tests if dependencies can't be imported)

17 years agoMakefile: don't attempt to run trial tests if the dependencies can't be imported
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:12:55 +0000 (19:12 -0700)]
Makefile: don't attempt to run trial tests if the dependencies can't be imported

17 years agoremove test in test_client -- we can't easily assert that files aren't readable by...
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:12:26 +0000 (20:12 -0700)]
remove test in test_client -- we can't easily assert that files aren't readable by others, on Windows

17 years agoez_setup.py: don't warn about the need to download packages (because we actually...
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:00:27 +0000 (20:00 -0700)]
ez_setup.py: don't warn about the need to download packages (because we actually bundle them all with Tahoe)

17 years agoMakefile: prepend src/ to the PYTHONPATH
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:43:15 +0000 (19:43 -0700)]
Makefile: prepend src/ to the PYTHONPATH

17 years agore-port Makefile to Windows and remove a bunch of no-longer-needed hacks
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:20:35 +0000 (18:20 -0700)]
re-port Makefile to Windows and remove a bunch of no-longer-needed hacks

17 years agoMakefile: add suggestion about how to use the distutils config file to select mingw32...
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:20:00 +0000 (18:20 -0700)]
Makefile: add suggestion about how to use the distutils config file to select mingw32 compiler

17 years agoadd simplejson into misc/dependencies
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:42:38 +0000 (16:42 -0700)]
add simplejson into misc/dependencies

17 years agoset the zip_safe flag to False
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:37:55 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
set the zip_safe flag to False
This means that by default the allmydata-tahoe egg will be a directory with a tree of files instead of a zip file containing files.  I prefer the former because it makes it easier for people to hack into it.
Unfortunately the files therein are still going to be .pyc's instead of .py's, if I understand correctly.  I would prefer for them to be .py's.  See also discussion on the distutils-sig mailing list:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-July/007827.html

17 years agofix Makefile not to assume that ":" is the PYTHONPATH separator
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:37:34 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
fix Makefile not to assume that ":" is the PYTHONPATH separator
(It is ";" on Windows.)

17 years agochange setup.py to find dependency tarballs in misc/dependencies
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:37:27 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
change setup.py to find dependency tarballs in misc/dependencies

17 years agochange ez_setup.py to find tarballs in misc/dependencies
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:51:19 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
change ez_setup.py to find tarballs in misc/dependencies

17 years agoadd zfec tarball to misc/dependencies
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:51:04 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
add zfec tarball to misc/dependencies

17 years agoadd setuptools eggs for py2.4 and py2.5 to misc/dependencies
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:50:43 +0000 (14:50 -0700)]
add setuptools eggs for py2.4 and py2.5 to misc/dependencies

17 years agoadd foolscap tarball to misc/dependencies
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:50:23 +0000 (14:50 -0700)]
add foolscap tarball to misc/dependencies

17 years agoinsert misc/dependencies
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:50:10 +0000 (14:50 -0700)]
insert misc/dependencies

17 years agouse ez_setup.py to bootstrap setuptools
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:57:10 +0000 (18:57 -0700)]
use ez_setup.py to bootstrap setuptools

17 years agoMakefile: re-order targets and let user's PYTHONPATH be included in the PP
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:56:33 +0000 (18:56 -0700)]
Makefile: re-order targets and let user's PYTHONPATH be included in the PP

17 years agosetup.py: remove nevow dependency: we need it, but easy_install can't install it
Brian Warner [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:55:38 +0000 (16:55 -0700)]
setup.py: remove nevow dependency: we need it, but easy_install can't install it

17 years agopackaging: add 'build-deps' target, to automatically build and install (locally,...
Brian Warner [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:48:45 +0000 (16:48 -0700)]
packaging: add 'build-deps' target, to automatically build and install (locally, in ./support) necessary dependencies. All such installed files are used during tests.

17 years agopackaging: move to setuptools
Brian Warner [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:02:53 +0000 (16:02 -0700)]
packaging: move to setuptools

17 years agosetup.py: fix move to _version.py
Brian Warner [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:02:23 +0000 (16:02 -0700)]
setup.py: fix move to _version.py

17 years agoremove zfec source from our tree, users should grab a tarball from our http://allmyda...
Brian Warner [Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:37:25 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
remove zfec source from our tree, users should grab a tarball from our http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dependencies page, or from the python cheeseshop

17 years agodebian: depend upon python-zfec, stop including zfec in the tahoe .deb
Brian Warner [Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:54:51 +0000 (13:54 -0700)]
debian: depend upon python-zfec, stop including zfec in the tahoe .deb

17 years agoMakefile: oops, fix clean-simplejson target. Might fix #10.
Brian Warner [Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:50:37 +0000 (23:50 -0700)]
Makefile: oops, fix clean-simplejson target. Might fix #10.

17 years agoMakefile: improve 'clean' behavior even more, maybe even completely.
Brian Warner [Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:45:14 +0000 (23:45 -0700)]
Makefile: improve 'clean' behavior even more, maybe even completely.
Now we remove downloaded setuptools-*.egg files, and *.egg-info directories

17 years agoMakefile: improve 'clean' behavior by removing foolscap .pycs and _version.py
Brian Warner [Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:38:00 +0000 (23:38 -0700)]
Makefile: improve 'clean' behavior by removing foolscap .pycs and _version.py

17 years agoremove simplejson source from our tree, users should grab a tarball from our http...
Brian Warner [Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:37:07 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
remove simplejson source from our tree, users should grab a tarball from our http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dependencies page, or from the python cheeseshop

17 years agoremove foolscap source from our tree, users should grab a tarball from our http:...
Brian Warner [Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:36:33 +0000 (15:36 -0700)]
remove foolscap source from our tree, users should grab a tarball from our http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dependencies page, or from the upstream http://foolscap.lothar.com/ home page

17 years agoREADME: update the wording of the "LICENCE" section to more closely follow FSF recomm...
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:31:57 +0000 (11:31 -0700)]
README: update the wording of the "LICENCE" section to more closely follow FSF recommendations

17 years agostorage: always record lease expiration times as integers
Brian Warner [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:53:31 +0000 (14:53 -0700)]
storage: always record lease expiration times as integers

17 years agoAdd some passing unit tests for testutil.PollMixin.
nejucomo [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:15:41 +0000 (16:15 -0700)]
Add some passing unit tests for testutil.PollMixin.

17 years agoprovisioning: include the cost of replacing failed hard drives
Brian Warner [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:46:45 +0000 (15:46 -0700)]
provisioning: include the cost of replacing failed hard drives

17 years agoprovisioning: add cost information
Brian Warner [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:29:33 +0000 (15:29 -0700)]
provisioning: add cost information

17 years agoloosen constraint on share data size
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:29:18 +0000 (11:29 -0700)]
loosen constraint on share data size

17 years agoprovisioning: oops, fix test_provisioning too
Brian Warner [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:01:17 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
provisioning: oops, fix test_provisioning too

17 years agoprovisioning.py: update test with new encoding-parameters format
Brian Warner [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:45:43 +0000 (14:45 -0700)]
provisioning.py: update test with new encoding-parameters format

17 years agoprovisioning: require at least one drive per server
Brian Warner [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 06:08:21 +0000 (23:08 -0700)]
provisioning: require at least one drive per server

17 years agoprovisioning: explain the 'survival' number better
Brian Warner [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 06:01:07 +0000 (23:01 -0700)]
provisioning: explain the 'survival' number better

17 years agoprovisioning: more repair/survivability data
Brian Warner [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 05:54:53 +0000 (22:54 -0700)]
provisioning: more repair/survivability data

17 years agoprovisioning: add some drive failure and repair rate info
Brian Warner [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 01:47:41 +0000 (18:47 -0700)]
provisioning: add some drive failure and repair rate info

17 years agoprovisioning.py: add file/server availability numbers
Brian Warner [Thu, 6 Sep 2007 01:16:21 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
provisioning.py: add file/server availability numbers

17 years agowebish: implement 'PUT /uri?t=mkdir' (to create anonymous dirnodes)
Brian Warner [Thu, 6 Sep 2007 00:23:06 +0000 (17:23 -0700)]
webish: implement 'PUT /uri?t=mkdir' (to create anonymous dirnodes)

17 years agowebish: implement 'PUT /uri' (to create anonymous files)
Brian Warner [Thu, 6 Sep 2007 00:12:27 +0000 (17:12 -0700)]
webish: implement 'PUT /uri' (to create anonymous files)

17 years agoclient.py: only import webish.py if 'webport' is set, to save 3MB of footprint
Brian Warner [Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:33:06 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
client.py: only import webish.py if 'webport' is set, to save 3MB of footprint

17 years agostorage: add version number to share data. Closes #90.
Brian Warner [Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:00:24 +0000 (09:00 -0700)]
storage: add version number to share data. Closes #90.

17 years agostorage: don't add a duplicate lease, renew the old one instead
Brian Warner [Mon, 3 Sep 2007 04:39:47 +0000 (21:39 -0700)]
storage: don't add a duplicate lease, renew the old one instead

17 years agostorage: remove get_or_add_owner, since I don't know what we need yet
Brian Warner [Sun, 2 Sep 2007 22:03:40 +0000 (15:03 -0700)]
storage: remove get_or_add_owner, since I don't know what we need yet

17 years agostorage: remove unused delete_bucket() method, lease-cancellation covers it
Brian Warner [Sun, 2 Sep 2007 22:00:29 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
storage: remove unused delete_bucket() method, lease-cancellation covers it

17 years agostorage: handle simultanous uploads: add a lease for the pre-empted client
Brian Warner [Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:57:49 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
storage: handle simultanous uploads: add a lease for the pre-empted client

17 years agodebug: 'dump-uri-extension' command becomes 'dump-share', add 'dump-share-leases...
Brian Warner [Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:48:20 +0000 (14:48 -0700)]
debug: 'dump-uri-extension' command becomes 'dump-share', add 'dump-share-leases'. Both display leases.

17 years agostorage: replace sqlite with in-share lease records
Brian Warner [Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:47:15 +0000 (14:47 -0700)]
storage: replace sqlite with in-share lease records

17 years agotest_uri.py: remove tiny whitespace
Brian Warner [Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:40:03 +0000 (23:40 -0700)]
test_uri.py: remove tiny whitespace

17 years agocreated DirnodeURI schema
wilcoxjg [Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:28:26 +0000 (23:28 -0700)]
created DirnodeURI schema

17 years agochanged MakeFile comment to clarify what "test.test_introducer" means
wilcoxjg [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:26:27 +0000 (15:26 -0700)]
changed MakeFile comment to clarify what "test.test_introducer" means

17 years agostorage: use sqlite from either python2.5's stdlib or the pysqlite2 package
Brian Warner [Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:28:52 +0000 (23:28 -0700)]
storage: use sqlite from either python2.5's stdlib or the pysqlite2 package

17 years agodeletion phase3: add a sqlite database to track renew/cancel-lease secrets, implement...
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:41:40 +0000 (23:41 -0700)]
deletion phase3: add a sqlite database to track renew/cancel-lease secrets, implement renew/cancel_lease (but nobody calls them yet). Also, move the shares from BASEDIR/storage/* down to BASEDIR/storage/shares/*

17 years agodeletion phase2b: create renew/cancel secrets for real.
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:30:26 +0000 (19:30 -0700)]
deletion phase2b: create renew/cancel secrets for real.

17 years agonode: change get_or_create_config to strip whitespace and accept a filemode= argument
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:23:50 +0000 (19:23 -0700)]
node: change get_or_create_config to strip whitespace and accept a filemode= argument

17 years agonode.py: change get_or_create_config() to accept a function
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:07:12 +0000 (19:07 -0700)]
node.py: change get_or_create_config() to accept a function

17 years agodeletion phase2a: improve creation of renew/cancel secrets. Still fake though.
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:00:18 +0000 (19:00 -0700)]
deletion phase2a: improve creation of renew/cancel secrets. Still fake though.

17 years agonode.py: refactor config-file getting and setting
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:58:39 +0000 (18:58 -0700)]
node.py: refactor config-file getting and setting

17 years agodeletion phase1: send renew/cancel-lease secrets, but my_secret is fake, and the...
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:28:51 +0000 (17:28 -0700)]
deletion phase1: send renew/cancel-lease secrets, but my_secret is fake, and the StorageServer discards them

17 years agotest_web: improve provisioning.py test coverage a bit by using a live web hit
Brian Warner [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:26:39 +0000 (17:26 -0700)]
test_web: improve provisioning.py test coverage a bit by using a live web hit

17 years agoadd a provisioning utility page which shows necessary storage space and transfer...
Brian Warner [Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:44:24 +0000 (23:44 -0700)]
add a provisioning utility page which shows necessary storage space and transfer rates for grids of various sizes

17 years agodebug.py: add share-overhead size info to dump-uri-extension
Brian Warner [Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:42:39 +0000 (23:42 -0700)]
debug.py: add share-overhead size info to dump-uri-extension

17 years agowebish: strip leading/tailing whitespace from user-provided filenames, to avoid confusion
Brian Warner [Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:05:24 +0000 (12:05 -0700)]
webish: strip leading/tailing whitespace from user-provided filenames, to avoid confusion

17 years agowebish: strip leading/tailing whitespace from user-provided URIs
Brian Warner [Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:05:06 +0000 (12:05 -0700)]
webish: strip leading/tailing whitespace from user-provided URIs

17 years agomunin/tahoe-sharesperfile: don't truncate to an int, emit a float instead
Brian Warner [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:31:15 +0000 (16:31 -0700)]
munin/tahoe-sharesperfile: don't truncate to an int, emit a float instead

17 years agoREADME: update wording of licence
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:51:30 +0000 (13:51 -0700)]
README: update wording of licence

17 years agochange name of the query "allow_local_access()?" to "local_access_is_allowed()"
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:32:00 +0000 (10:32 -0700)]
change name of the query "allow_local_access()?" to "local_access_is_allowed()"
So as to avoid confusing it with the setter method
"allow_local_access(allowed=True)".

17 years agoREADME: updated debian-packaging section a bit, replace dapper with etch
Brian Warner [Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:07:25 +0000 (17:07 -0700)]
README: updated debian-packaging section a bit, replace dapper with etch

17 years agoMakefile: fix race condition in test-clean that caused occasional failures
Brian Warner [Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:28:51 +0000 (21:28 -0700)]
Makefile: fix race condition in test-clean that caused occasional failures

17 years agoMakefile: stop producing foolscap .debs
Brian Warner [Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:01:01 +0000 (14:01 -0700)]
Makefile: stop producing foolscap .debs

17 years agotahoe_put.py: hush pyflakes by removing unused 'sys' import
Brian Warner [Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:29:50 +0000 (16:29 -0700)]
tahoe_put.py: hush pyflakes by removing unused 'sys' import

17 years agotrying to introduce old style humanreadablied logs hopefully without breaking the...
tahoe [Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:52:37 +0000 (14:52 -0700)]
trying to introduce old style humanreadablied logs hopefully without breaking the existing ones

17 years agoTAG allmydata-tahoe-0.5.1 allmydata-tahoe-0.5.1
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:03:15 +0000 (14:03 -0700)]
TAG allmydata-tahoe-0.5.1

17 years agorelnotes.txt: v0.5.1
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:51:41 +0000 (13:51 -0700)]
relnotes.txt: v0.5.1

17 years agoTAG allmydata-tahoe-0.5.0 allmydata-tahoe-0.5.0
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:19:10 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
TAG allmydata-tahoe-0.5.0

17 years agosetup.py: oops, I inserted a typo by commenting out the wrong line
Brian Warner [Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:56:58 +0000 (00:56 -0700)]
setup.py: oops, I inserted a typo by commenting out the wrong line

17 years agosetup.py: don't install allmydata.Crypto.PublicKey either
Brian Warner [Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:54:52 +0000 (00:54 -0700)]
setup.py: don't install allmydata.Crypto.PublicKey either

17 years agosetup.py: disable building RSA for now, since it requires GMP. We'll refrain
Brian Warner [Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:52:21 +0000 (00:52 -0700)]
setup.py: disable building RSA for now, since it requires GMP. We'll refrain
from adding it to the build-dependencies until we actually want to use RSA.

17 years agocrypto: fix compiler warnings in the .c files
Brian Warner [Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:48:52 +0000 (17:48 -0700)]
crypto: fix compiler warnings in the .c files

17 years agocopy RSA from PyCrypto into the allmydata/ tree, we'll use it eventually
Brian Warner [Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:36:39 +0000 (17:36 -0700)]
copy RSA from PyCrypto into the allmydata/ tree, we'll use it eventually

17 years agoMakefile: use a different rm *.so command for the 'clean' target
Brian Warner [Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:28:12 +0000 (15:28 -0700)]
Makefile: use a different rm *.so command for the 'clean' target

17 years agoMakefile: more portable way to make clean succeed when there's nothing to rm
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:18:51 +0000 (14:18 -0700)]
Makefile: more portable way to make clean succeed when there's nothing to rm
xargs doesn't have a "-r" option on Mac OS X.

17 years agoMakefile: fix 'clean' target to work even if there's nothing to clean
Brian Warner [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:24:48 +0000 (14:24 -0700)]
Makefile: fix 'clean' target to work even if there's nothing to clean

17 years agohush pyflakes warning in Crypto.Util.number
Brian Warner [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:17:12 +0000 (14:17 -0700)]
hush pyflakes warning in Crypto.Util.number

17 years agoremove PyCrypto, copy AES/SHA256/Util.number into the allmydata/ tree
Brian Warner [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:57:41 +0000 (13:57 -0700)]
remove PyCrypto, copy AES/SHA256/Util.number into the allmydata/ tree

17 years agomerge duplicate patches re: zfec setuptools
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:40:47 +0000 (12:40 -0700)]
merge duplicate patches re: zfec setuptools
Some patches were done in the tahoe darcs repo and some in the zfec darcs repo.

17 years agomerge duplicate patches to shebang /usr/bin/python
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:33:25 +0000 (11:33 -0700)]
merge duplicate patches to shebang /usr/bin/python
one patch from the tahoe darcs repo and one patch from the zfec darcs repo

17 years agozfec: fix bug in argparse
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:10:58 +0000 (11:10 -0700)]
zfec: fix bug in argparse

17 years agowebish: modify JSON to match zooko's proposed API changes in #118
Brian Warner [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:00:39 +0000 (13:00 -0700)]
webish: modify JSON to match zooko's proposed API changes in #118

17 years agocommand-line: remove the --vdrive option (it is now hardcoded to "global")
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:27:00 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
command-line: remove the --vdrive option (it is now hardcoded to "global")

17 years agowebapi.txt: minor edits
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:09:44 +0000 (13:09 -0700)]
webapi.txt: minor edits

17 years agowebapi.txt edits (thanks to Brian Warner)
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:06:06 +0000 (13:06 -0700)]
webapi.txt edits (thanks to Brian Warner)

17 years agonew improved webapi.txt
Zooko O'Whielacronx [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:03:26 +0000 (13:03 -0700)]
new improved webapi.txt
As per ticket #118, this refactors the explanation of URIs and paths and changes the JSON metadata schema.

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/118

17 years agoweb: replace FILE links with /uri -based ones, to prevent an XSS attack against the...
Brian Warner [Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:35:01 +0000 (17:35 -0700)]
web: replace FILE links with /uri -based ones, to prevent an XSS attack against the secret vdrive URI contained in the current URL