Notices by Jamey Sharp (jamey@toot.cat), page 14

@netkitty that's worth pawsing for!

@Ninjatrappeur Yeah, there's some "clear-env" flag that apparently defaults to true, but I couldn't find anything connected to that in a way that would let me turn it off. 🤷

But apparently I'm not the first to try packaging this, the last person gave up after a few months, and my gobject-introspection patch breaks other Nix packages for reasons I don't understand yet. So I need to sort all that out first. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/44187

I just read the GitPub 0.1 draft, which was the only actual text I could find. I feel I'd prefer if everything it does were instead via some lightweight microformat annotations in the HTML that all these web-based repository browsers are producing anyway, plus WebMention for signaling between sites. A good start would be @joeyh's https://joeyh.name/rfc/rel-vcs/ spec…

@jorty I know a cis guy who routinely wears kilts here in Portland and I've never seen anybody blink at that, but I don't know how well that generalizes. Have you tried it? Maybe it would be okay for wherever you are too?

So the feedback on my recent "Lightweight Linux" post has been...interesting.

https://kevq.uk/the-insidious-linux-community/

I'm so glad the whole of the #Linux #Community isn't this bad!

@kensanata That post seems to be up again now, but it describes a different approach which I had discarded 😅

Delta compression for feed updates requires rather more complicated machinery on both ends and in caches, compared to RFC5005, which can be implemented with static file serving. It is more precise about sending exactly what the client needs though, so it can use marginally less bandwidth. It's a trade-off.

Interesting that there are so many implementations though…

@Ninjatrappeur @hergertme I'm using wrapGAppsHook which calls wrapProgram. But the package for Builder shouldn't depend on a specific rustc version; there should be some way to set up a per-project environment. I use http://direnv.net/ to do that in the shell, so I tested Builder from inside one of those environments. Running a terminal inside Builder inherits the PATH, but the "build" button doesn't. Seems intentional…?

@garbados space… or deep sea diving! or extreme mountain climbing? so many good possibilities.

@kibi ...what spec is that from?

@hergertme omg, several days after I started trying to do this, I have a mostly-working gnome-builder, hooray! I had to replace nixpkgs' g-i patch with https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/commit/a41abe1868a693387cd5cf85567cf2e0fd6c62df but strip out the meson.build portion of that patch because the last released version didn't use meson yet 😅

Now, why can't cargo find things like pkg-config that are on my PATH when I build inside Builder? 🤔 Is that safe_path setting I saw used here? I don't have /bin or /usr/bin...