Do you also have any data for the older branches?
You don’t need to put in any comments yet. We may not decide to use that system.
And it’s probably easiest for you to just create the branches. You can’t actually create branches without anything to put in them, and I don’t really have anything yet. Unless I was to copy the readme.
I’m open to adding 6L38 and 6L02 later but for now I’ll stick to 10.1 and 6M62 (and now I’m leaning toward saying 9.3 having thought about it longer). If there’s ever to be a 6G60 someone else can take that on: on Linux one needs a kernel out of yesteryear to run it.
With regard to the naming of the 6M62 / 9.3 branch, I would like to note this:
Whichever way we name the branch, we should consider putting up a symbolic-ref with the other name. This is a sort of obscure corner of git, but it’s probably useful here. It’s also being used by people whose repos are moving from “master” to “main”.
For 6L02 / 6L38, are there any extensions which compile on one of those and not on 6M62?
6G60 isn’t shipped in the retrospective/ folder of the new release and it’s impossible to run the original compiler on Linux, so it’s definitely worth forgetting about. Extensions which only compile on it are best classified as “don’t compile anywhere” unless someone on a system where the old closed-source compiler runs really wants to take it on.
I know Daniel Stelzer gave up on trying to update Scroll Thief from 6L38 to 6M62 because of problems porting extensions. I don’t know whether those problems were couldn’t-compile or just didn’t-work.
What links will break? Links from the intfiction forum to old versions of extensions? (Is it a bad thing if links to outdated versions break? Is there a way to make it so that if you follow an old link, you land on a notice that says “Extensions have moved; follow this link?”)
For those of us who don’t really understand how branches work, it might be less confusing to use folders, or even a new repo for version 10 stuff. Not sure.
Hmm, I wouldn’t mind trying to update all those Scroll Thief extensions some year. At the moment the published source of Scroll Thief can’t be compiled without two unpublished extensions by Daniel Stelzer (Compass Rose and Pronoun Modifications), which are politely marked with (!!!) in the source code, so that’s a little bit too much for me to even take a crack at it. Maybe some time in the future.
FWIW, I am making progress on updating my own extensions; I am doing this on the v10-fixes-neroden branch on my copy of the repo
My aspiration is to also update informant.rb to create a listing/description page for both 10.1 and 6M62/9.3; the output will get committed to the master branch’s docs dir and continue to be what is seen at Friends of I7 Extensions. But I’ll do the commit extensions to version branches step first.
For the 10.1 branch, things without versions will become version 1.
I’m going to quietly omit the GNU GPLv3 extension from the version-specific branches, what with it being far from a community standard. It can always be added back if there’s interest.
Okay, the easy one is done. Friends extensions 9.3/6M62 branch.
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The README will need further updating regarding downloading; we need some scheme to provide zipfiles on a per branch basis.
In the name of semantic version-ification for the v10 branch, I’m converting the 1/220521 variant of versions to 1.3 (or minor version 2 for things with dates beginning 1).
The Friends Extensions 10.1 branch is there, populated with the things that are believed to work under v10.
@neroden feel free to commit your updates.
@Dannii I don’t have permission to make 10.1 the default branch; could you, please? the links to the current ‘master’ in the READMEs currently don’t work; I’m hoping they work after the change of default. Though possibly 9.3’s README’s link to the 10.1 branch will break.
Other than updating version numbers or adding a version number 1 to those that had none, changing filenames, and adding a rubric to Actions on Groups by Matt Weiner these are the same extensions that existed in the master branch.
There are a bunch of things omitted here that were listed as working in the extension smoketest results I’ve been posting 'cause the latter reflected various small fixes I’d made locally. I haven’t yet re-created those changes, but I’m walking away from the computer now…
(Dang, Discourse is calling me out. “You’ve posted more than 35% of the responses here. Is there anyone else you’d like to hear from?”)
After struggling a little bit with workflow I think I’ve got everything of mine which you ‘auto-updated’ for me updated properly on both the master branch and the 10.1 branch (there was some compiles-but-no-longer-works stuff going on), plus merged the ones I’d updated over the last few days.
After experiment, I’m realizing that the branch workflow may be a bit messy for maintaining the master branch vs. the 10.1 branch manually, so I’m actually leaning towards having the system auto-populate the 10.1 branch from release comments, and I’m voting that way. This wasn’t my initial inclination, so I guess I was right to try doing the workflow manually before making a decision on how to vote!
It was relatively easy for me because right now all changes to master can simply be merged to 10.1, but as master develops more WIP which doesn’t belong in 10.1, that won’t be possible and it’ll be a painful cherry-picking process, which might be better automated.
Perhaps it is best to think of these not so much as compatibility comments but as “release comments”: marking whether a particular file is being released as part of the “semi-official 10.1 Friends of I7 distribution” or nah.
An alternative approach would be to automatically merge everything to the 10.1 branch unless it failed Zed’s Smoketest!
[I’m getting this too: You’ve posted more than 30% of the replies here, is there anyone else you would like to hear from? I do not actually like this forum software’s attitude]
I’ve changed the default branch and updated the README to point to the 10.1 zip.
Shall I also lock all the branches other than master so that they can’t be committed to directly and must be updated via pull request? This is to stop people putting extensions for 6M62 or WIPs into the 10.1 branch, so that only production ready extensions appear there.
Yes going forward master shouldn’t be merged into 10.1 etc. The branches will need to remain separate. And if anyone wants to update both master, 9.3, 10.1 etc, they’ll need to do each update separately. Unless we implement the automated replication system, in which case they should only update master. (But 9.3 will still require manually updates.)
Sounds good to me.
And maybe ‘master’ should be renamed not ‘main’ but ‘dev’ or ‘staging’.
Restrictions have been applied to the 9.3 and 10.1 branches.
I’d love to set up a Github Action that automatically checks whether updated files in those branches do compile in those releases.
We can’t rename master without breaking links. It’s not worth doing. Which does remind me I never answered this question…
That’s not possible unfortunately, if the files are removed people following links from the forum or anywhere else will just see a 404 error page, with no info on where else they can go.
oops, was forgetting about the branch name in the /blob/ pages. But now I’m wondering whether we should insert a comment at the top of the extensions in master to explain their status and mention the 10.1 and 9.3 branch pages. I think it’s bordering on more bug than feature to not break those links if they promote someone not immersed in the history of I7 extensions finding Extension X and then being frustrated that it doesn’t work in v10.
Yeah that could be helpful. If you’d like to do that feel free to go ahead. Such a comment shouldn’t be accompanied by a version update though.
There are a few stale branches in the Github repo, two by @peterorme, one by @neroden. Do you mind if I clean them up (ie, delete) them now?