Nushell core team meeting 2022-11-09

Attendees

• Stefan
• Reilly
• Michael
• Jakub
• Darren
• JT
• Andreas

Agenda

• input-output types: 6796 (@dandavison)
  • general consensus land it asap
  • Follow up: 7037 Start defining subtype relation (@dandavison)
• plugin plans: how do we figure out the next steps?

Discussed Topics

• The path to v0.80

  • JT leaning toward incrementally delivering new functionality instead of a big-bang release
  • Nu's grown more popular and we have more people pulling the project in different directions. How do we navigate that?
    • consensus (getting everyone to agree) vs consent (getting everyone to a point where they're not blocking a change)
    • consent is easier+healthier

• the plugin plan

  • can we pull out most commands into plugins succesfully?
  • counter point by Yethal: https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/656#issuecomment-1309190800
    • distribution questions: how usable should Nu be as a single binary without plugins?
  • experience should be seamless (one line max)
  • versioning/ABI compatibility
  • story of plugins today
    • pure "function" plugin with json/msgpack is fine
      • hot loop might be a different question
    • no access to engine internals/scope/blocks
      • key piece to leverage more tricks in plugins

• nushell standard library

  • Write existing command or commands that might be interesting with basic nu building

PR's

• 6958 Add –ignore-program-errors option to do command (@SUPERCILEX)
  • breaking-change
  • not fitting into a larger design of error handling AND seemless external experience
• 6983 Grouped config commands better (closes #6911) (@webbedspace)
  • wait-until-after-nushell-release
  • breaking-change
• 6984 [MVP][WIP] less like pager (@zhiburt)
• 6990 make ls work like dir on windows (@richardmarklund)
  • breaking-change
  • Not ready yet
• 6994 Allow iteration blocks to have an optional extra index parameter (alternative to -n flags) (@webbedspace)
• 7002 return Error if get meet nothing and without "i" (@Decodetalkers)
  • description unclear, need to iterate, check tests
• 7010 Make json require string and pass around metadata (@Kixunil)
  • breaking-change
• 7028 Move the config of complete rules to other place (@Decodetalkers)
  • Currently marked as draft
• 7047 Type validation for headers command (#6918) (@raccmonteiro)
• 7051 allow tables in ++ operator (@dmatos2012)
  • wait-until-after-nushell-release
• 7052 Collapse some help commands columns into a single column (@dandavison)
• 7056 Fix needs_quotes() in to nuon (closes #6989) (@webbedspace)
• 7066 Support interpolation in backtick strings (@webbedspace)
• 7070 fix overflow on negative bytes (@dmatos2012)

Land (no dissent) after meeting

• 7058 command open returns error when does not have parameters (#7048) (@raccmonteiro)
• 7063 Replace all instances of 'column path' in help messages with 'cell path' (@webbedspace)

Probably too small to discuss

land after small fix

• 6898 prevent error when lines reads bad bytes (@merelymyself)
  • Discussed in the last meeting, needs work
  • Action item: Stefan or merelymyself
• 6910 Make seq return a ListStream where possible. (@merelymyself)
  • Needs some rework
  • Action item: Stefan or merelymyself
• 6938 removes unused features. (@FilipAndersson245)
  • unsure about chrono
  • Action item: Stefan and Filip

Outside the scope of the meeting

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