| 24 Nov 2025 |
 goldstein | e.g. they miss allRefs attr in git fetcher | 19:44:19 |
| goldstein | not sure if intentional | 19:44:22 |
 helle (just a stray cat girl) | there are a bunch of misses | 19:44:28 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | I am planning on holding the source to all the builtins, fetchurl was what tripped me, it takes a structured attributes, but doesn't mention that at all there | 19:45:18 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | also there is a need for a more formal syntax spec | 19:45:28 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/1048 | 19:45:58 |
| goldstein | I would offer to document this part, but unfortunately I don’t understand half the attrs there :(
maybe if I start to understand them after reading this code more for my current project lol | 19:46:05 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | but fetchTree is it's own cursed bit | 19:46:11 |
| goldstein | e.g. rev and revCount are supported for all the fetchers, including file and tarball and path | 19:47:03 |
| goldstein | for reasons I do not comprehend | 19:47:07 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | oh, the reason is very easy | 19:47:18 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | every fetcher got rewritten to be basically fetchTree in disguise | 19:47:28 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | I should file a further bug on this..... | 19:47:46 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | because it leads to some question on if we want to keep that behaviour and how many people are relying on it | 19:48:04 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | Redacted or Malformed Event | 19:48:34 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | because while unifying a bunch of the code is useful, having behaviour of flakes leak outside of flakes is suboptimal | 19:49:19 |
| goldstein | fetchTree is a cool primitive to have, but flakerefs are kind of a weird format... | 19:49:52 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | yes, this is the underlying problem and as everything flakey, underdocumented | 19:50:14 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | there is a reason flakes are being ripped out of core | 19:50:28 |
| goldstein | the URL form trips me up so much bc of the meta-query-parameters in what is otherwise HTTP urls | 19:51:18 |
| goldstein | very excited for this | 19:51:25 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | they aren't necessary http urls, but yeah | 19:51:35 |
| goldstein | yeah, I mean in urls that include http urls | 19:51:49 |
| goldstein | * yeah, I mean in urls that could be http urls | 19:51:57 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | yeah | 19:52:41 |
 thubrecht | The source code :> | 19:53:42 |
| goldstein | yeah, that’s what I’ve done lol | 19:53:52 |
| goldstein | 
Download clipboard.png | 19:54:05 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | there is divergence between lix and nix there..... | 19:55:22 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | I think we currently lack practical bugs, but we have had them before | 19:55:37 |
