| 17 Jul 2025 |
 emily | In reply to @infinidoge:inx.moe
I'm used to by sprawling collection of git aliases and am comfortable with git, so I haven't so far, but it's workflow looks a lot more practical IMO it is simpler than Git for beginners and more powerful than Git for experts. | 21:56:55 |
| emily | in this case the nice thing for forks is that it is easy to maintain a merge of 5 branches into one | 21:57:18 |
| emily | which is nominally a thing you can do in Git but in practice is no fun | 21:57:32 |
 @softmoonworld:matrix.org | Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️: thank you! i think maybe that is something i could help update if someone else can't do it | 22:00:07 |
 msgilligan | I'm going to keep it simple and just keep it as fork and a regularly rebased PR. It may not turn out to be a long-term thing. Once JDK 25 (both regular and GraalVM) is in Nixpkgs, I may lose interest. | 22:00:07 |
| msgilligan | So, I will look at breaking out the mergable stuff, like GITHUB_TOKEN into separate PRs and maintaining a PR with the EA-25 as well. I will then be able to use and test this in various places with a separate flake input. I think this will work for me and should also help the Nixpkgs JDK team support 25 GA sooner. | 22:01:57 |
| msgilligan | I created an org and a fork: https://github.com/nixpkgs-jdk-ea/nixpkgs | 22:03:15 |
| msgilligan | Thanks everyone for your time and advice! | 22:18:33 |
| @softmoonworld:matrix.org | if anyone was interested -- I looked into the code for temurin and it says 17.0.15 but it does download the +6 version since it's automatically getting the latest. | 23:13:16 |
 Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | Cool, I meant to check that but I got distracted by at least 4 separate tangents and forgot | 23:14:01 |
| emily | the versioning scheme is weird | 23:19:52 |
| emily | +n are prereleases until they declare one of them to be -ga | 23:20:04 |
| emily | so we never package the same version with a different +n, since we wait for -ga but represent it with the +n to match Temurin etc. since that's the canonical version | 23:20:26 |
| Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | I love Java
I mean it both sarcastically and seriously | 23:25:07 |
| @softmoonworld:matrix.org | ahh thats so interesting | 23:40:16 |
| msgilligan | Java has had some of the craziest versioning schemes I've seen, thought they've reigned in some of their worst mistakes. e.g. Java 2 version 1.3. | 23:40:22 |
