| 2 Dec 2025 |
 raitobezarius | you can write any search expr | 23:07:11 |
 kloenk | oh interesting desing decision. so guess I stay with stared CLs, thanks | 23:09:03 |
| 3 Dec 2025 |
 niklaskorz | In reply to @raitobezarius:matrix.org
don't forget to subscribe for more gerrit protips which caret do I click to subscribe to the pro tips | 00:09:34 |
| raitobezarius | wait you have to go through my sponsor segment first | 00:09:47 |
 helle (just a stray cat girl) | hmmm, kinda wish we had handling for tabs in files, had a few very funnily aligned error messages by accident (oh and iirc also on some other weirdness in files causing a misalign, possibly unicode combined chars?, should try and repro that on purpose) | 12:36:34 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | and by wish, I mean this is impossible to do right, but that doesn't stop me dreaming | 12:53:14 |
|  Julien joined the room. | 13:26:40 |
 Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | https://github.com/ToruNiina/toml11/issues/303
so apparently this is closed and "works on currnt main"?
could we check if we can update our dep, before i try rewriting everything with the other library? | 15:50:26 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | so apparently this jut magically works now for me? | 15:56:28 |
| kloenk | Please do not observe the library. Outputs might change when observed | 15:59:33 |
 Qyriad | In reply to @helle:tacobelllabs.net
hmmm, kinda wish we had handling for tabs in files, had a few very funnily aligned error messages by accident (oh and iirc also on some other weirdness in files causing a misalign, possibly unicode combined chars?, should try and repro that on purpose) we just wrote a real dedent impl and use it in our nix code lmao | 16:13:39 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | In reply to @qyriad:katesiria.org
we just wrote a real dedent impl and use it in our nix code lmao valid approach, may steal | 17:07:33 |
| 16 May 2024 |
|  zrsk joined the room. | 13:54:49 |
 samrose | In reply to @lunaphied:lunaphied.me
I think there were a few CLs on the Gerrit but nothing being actively worked The other thing that I could do if it helps is test things and try to find bugs. I did do some C++ work in the past, but may lack the time to do it justice here at least for about 30 days or so | 15:55:29 |
| Qyriad | we are not in any rush 🙂 | 17:20:53 |
| samrose | Would it help to also test out the existing Lix code and try to find issues/bugs etc? | 17:23:21 |
| Qyriad | absolutely | 17:23:41 |
| samrose |
- how do people feel about the existing test suite that comes along with nix source code or Lix?
| 17:23:48 |
| Qyriad | it's pitiful | 17:24:10 |
| samrose | heh | 17:24:16 |
| raitobezarius | expanding it is cool | 17:24:23 |
| raitobezarius | writing new tests for builtins which are not tested | 17:24:30 |
| raitobezarius | new test behaviors, etc. | 17:24:32 |
| Qyriad | we have three flavors of test:
gtest (offer only available in libexpr and libutil) bash script virtual machine
the vast, vast majority of testing is in the "bash script" flavor and it is a mess | 17:25:01 |
| samrose | I was just going to ask on the "functional" tests: do we still like using bash there? | 17:25:56 |
| samrose | the last time that I worked on a major nix related cli project that used bash, or bats for testing, over time it became rather kind of hard to maintain | 17:26:42 |
| samrose | I am not usually a big python fan, but in that project we heard from some in the Rust community that they actually use Python to test CLI and seem to have success there. | 17:27:59 |
| Qyriad | no gods please kill bash testing. the problem is that it's kind of really difficult to migrate an entire test suite and be sure that you actually migrated the test suite correctly and won't lose coverage accidentally in the process, which makes any kind of migration a bit nerve wracking | 17:28:36 |
| samrose | yes it's a rather large undertaking | 17:28:52 |
| samrose | could be done in chunks | 17:28:59 |
