Nushell core team meeting 2024-07-24

Attendees

• Ian
• Devyn
• Andy
• Antoine
• Michael
• Jack
• Wind
• Darren

Agenda

• Release issues?
  • Still need reedline repo release
  • Still need nu-ansi-term repo release
  • Let's add that to the docs
  • Should we delete wix/msi/winget forever?
  • Range $in issue: expr | ?..$in doesn't work
• [x]
• [x]

Discussed Topics

Winget

• Is it necessary for us to keep supporting it?
  • Other package managers are community supported
• Is it too much work for Windows users to cargo install something?
  • Need MSVC compiler toolchain
• Windows Defender was an issue with the last MSI, but even after rebuilding it and not having that issue anymore Winget still failed
• Possible to make Windows trust this more?
  • Code signing
  • How much does a cert cost for code signing
    • $10? $100? (per year)
• Possible approach:
  • Keep building MSI and zip file
  • Make a blog post saying that we won't be publishing to Winget anymore
  • Ask for someone who wants to maintain it to do it for us if they want to
• Look for a Winget package maintainer

Patch release

• Range $in issue
• Possible span issue with typechecking, but I don't think it's new

Plugin ctrlc PR is ready

• Target for 0.97
• Is it possible to have a plugin make multiple engine calls simultaneously
  • eval_closure_in_background() call?

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Note
to list all the PRs currently opened in nushell/nushell:

gh pr list --json url,number,author,title
| from json
| each {|i|
    $"- [($i.number)]\(($i.url)\) ($i.title) \(@($i.author.login)\)"
}
| reverse
| to text