I think this is the *wrong* way to build this, but it's perfectly legal
to have a feature branch with this committed that people can develop
against. We can always cherry-pick off those commits to merge them, and
we can update and rebase this commit over time when needed.
Instead of constantly making these updates, let's just remove the year
since things are stored in git anyways, and this is not an actual modern
legal risk anymore.
This should make a maintainers life easier. (I hope!) The .release files
contain the "magic name" for the respective release type. If they start
with a # then they are skipped. You shouldn't need to keep bumping the
distro versions in the Makefile anymore.
With the recent merging of embedded package imports and the entry CLI
package, it is now possible for users to build in mcl code into a single
binary. This additional permission makes it explicitly clear that this
is permitted to make it easier for those users. The condition is phrased
so that the terms can be "patched" by the original author if it's
necessary for the project. For example, if the name of the language
(mcl) changes, has a differently named new version, someone finds a
phrasing improvement or a legal loophole, or for some other
reasonable circumstance. Now go write some beautiful embedded tools!
As per https://go.dev/blog/rebuild if we include -trimpath then we'll
not store full build paths in the build artifacts.
We still have some CGO dependencies, but we'll look into those
separately.
This updates the versions of virtually all our deps. Ever since golang
switched to go.mod we were unable to do so due to blockages with the
retract mechanism that one dep had used. Here's what seems like a
workaround for now. Suggestions from expert welcome.
This doesn't let us have nested mcl at the moment, but we could improve
on this with an embed API for each package. For now this makes building
the project easier.
The old system with vendor/ and git submodules worked great,
unfortunately FUD around git submodules seemed to scare people away and
golang moved to a go.mod system that adds a new lock file format instead
of using the built-in git version. It's now almost impossible to use
modern golang without this, so we've switched.
So much for the golang compatibility promise-- turns out it doesn't
apply to the useful parts that I actually care about like this.
Thanks to frebib for his incredibly valuable contributions to this
patch. This snide commit message is mine alone.
This patch also mixes in some changes due to legacy golang as we've also
bumped the minimum version to 1.16 in the docs and tests.
Lastly, we had to disable some tests and fix up a few other misc things
to get this passing. We've definitely hot bugs in the go.mod system, and
our Makefile tries to workaround those.
This ensures that docstring comments are wrapped to 80 chars. ffrank
seemed to be making this mistake far too often, and it's a silly thing
to look for manually. As it turns out, I've made it too, as have many
others. Now we have a test that checks for most cases. There are still a
few stray cases that aren't checked automatically, but this can be
improved upon if someone is motivated to do so.
Before anyone complains about the 80 character limit: this only checks
docstring comments, not source code length or inline source code
comments. There's no excuse for having docstrings that are badly
reflowed or over 80 chars, particularly if you have an automated test.
Send non-error log messages to stdout rather than stderr. Any messages
outside the main function are expected to be purely informational. By
sending to stdout rather than stderr, they can be discarded during the
build.
Fixes#568
This unique token is necessary so that storing the files in the same dir
(basically a GitHub release) or in the SHA1SUMS file doesn't cause a
conflict.
We'd like to be able to build both Fedora N and N-1 at the same time if
possible. This makes it more generally applicable for this scenario, as
well as for other distros.
Building distro packages is great, however if they aren't built in the
correct environment with the associated dependencies, then they won't
work properly on those distros.
This patch adds an `mkosi` based image building environment that builds
the packages in their respective distros, and then copies them out into
our releases directory.
You'll now want to `make tag && make mkosi && make release` to get a new
release out. We use a small hack to trick the `make release` portion to
not re-build the distro packages if they're already present in the
releases/ directory for that version.
This commit depends on a very recent version of mkosi (it was tested
with git master) and also depends on two currently unmerged patches:
https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/363 and
https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/365
This adds a giant missing piece of the language: proper function values!
It is lovely to now understand why early programming language designers
didn't implement these, but a joy to now reap the benefits of them. In
adding these, many other changes had to be made to get them to "fit"
correctly. This improved the code and fixed a number of bugs.
Unfortunately this touched many areas of the code, and since I was
learning how to do all of this for the first time, I've squashed most of
my work into a single commit. Some more information:
* This adds over 70 new tests to verify the new functionality.
* Functions, global variables, and classes can all be implemented
natively in mcl and built into core packages.
* A new compiler step called "Ordering" was added. It is called by the
SetScope step, and determines statement ordering and shadowing
precedence formally. It helped remove at least one bug and provided the
additional analysis required to properly capture variables when
implementing function generators and closures.
* The type unification code was improved to handle the new cases.
* Light copying of Node's allowed our function graphs to be more optimal
and share common vertices and edges. For example, if two different
closures capture a variable $x, they'll both use the same copy when
running the function, since the compiler can prove if they're identical.
* Some areas still need improvements, but this is ready for mainstream
testing and use!
