| 18 Oct 2025 |
 matthewcroughan | Crawled to my computer and started building | 12:40:02 |
 Alyssa Ross | support for building with LLVM in Nixpkgs is very new. musl has had a lot of work put into it over years, and LLVM hasn't yet. | 12:40:12 |
| Alyssa Ross | (speaking from experience) it's also very important when doing stuff with obscure platforms to make sure you're not stepping on anybody's toes, because if people get annoyed they'll start wanting to just declare your platform unsupported, and then you're screwed | 12:40:23 |
| Alyssa Ross | the #1 most important thing for musl support in Nixpkgs being where it is today (where I don't have to have a fork) is that it happened quietly, so nobody ever got annoyed enough to ask why they should have to care about it | 12:41:56 |
| matthewcroughan | Who merged the PRs and reviewed the PRs though? | 12:42:31 |
| Alyssa Ross | package maintainers mostly | 12:42:54 |
| Alyssa Ross | I always tried to make very sure that PRs were merge-ready when I opened them | 12:43:08 |
| Alyssa Ross | in many cases, there were no Nixpkgs PRs | 12:43:40 |
| Alyssa Ross | because I got things fixed upstream | 12:43:44 |
| Alyssa Ross | and just waited for Nixpkgs to update | 12:43:50 |
| matthewcroughan | I see, yeah so like I said if I find any more things like that I'll just make it a draft PR instead of an open one | 12:44:12 |
| Alyssa Ross | I tried to make it so that other people had to spend as little time thinking about musl as possible | 12:44:40 |
| Alyssa Ross | (this did mean a lot of suffering in silence, because at the time there wasn't really anybody else around who cared — nowadays fortunately that's not true and we can help each other.) | 12:46:11 |
| Alyssa Ross | often I just had to put some stuff down until I had acquired more experience with simpler fixes and could come back to it later | 12:46:46 |
 dramforever | did i ever give you the patch for fb-re2 | 12:54:00 |
| matthewcroughan | I might have missed it, the thing you sent me on email was the upstream musl one right? | 12:54:39 |
| dramforever | yeah that's on the mailing list | 12:55:10 |
| matthewcroughan | You gave me a compare link to github I vaguely remember, I must have been busy on some other task at the time | 12:55:27 |
| matthewcroughan | https://github.com/facebook/pyre2/compare/main...dramforever:pyre2:fix-py3-type this? | 12:57:36 |
| dramforever | yeah | 12:57:45 |
| dramforever | i think this one might be a good candidate to remove dependence on | 12:58:15 |
| dramforever | might | 12:58:29 |
| matthewcroughan | Yeah Nix depends on it because of dependency on Mercurial for the functional tets | 12:58:49 |
| matthewcroughan | * Yeah Nix depends on it because of dependency on Mercurial for the functional tests | 12:58:51 |
| dramforever | i don't have any concrete reason for why it's bad other than it looking crusty | 12:59:02 |
| matthewcroughan | but I believe it works fine without re2SUpport | 12:59:20 |
| matthewcroughan | * but I believe it works fine without re2Support | 12:59:24 |
| matthewcroughan | and it's optional | 12:59:26 |
| matthewcroughan | (mercurial that is) | 12:59:34 |
| matthewcroughan | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by-name/me/mercurial/package.nix#L9 | 12:59:42 |
