Nushell core team meeting 2024-03-20

Attendees

• Jack
• Ed
• Darren
• Antoine
• Ian
• Michael
• Devyn
• Stefan
• Filip
• Jakub
• Wind

Agenda

• supporting .netrc for http commands(https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/12211)
• DF as a plugin
• Yash/Darren discussion on nu in nu

Discussed Topics

dataframes as a plugin

• jack has been porting our dataframe implementation into a plugin
• plugin stores the actual dataframes and nushell will reference over the plugin protocol.
• current work: porting the test harness
  • maybe we need a slightly different test helper. (you don't have as much engine access in the tests)
• Fernando arguing for lazy frames over the eager solution
  • for now proceed as just a port, then iterate later
• dfr list
  • can we associate the stored values in the plugin-side to variable name
  • in the current logic it has engine access that won't work for a plugin
• Devyn: Are there any API snagpoints
  • so far iteratively discussed in the chat
  • signature differences between Signature/PluginSignature
  • priority: test running

.netrc PR #12211

• code for the parser has been copied from anothre crate
  • license needs to be clarified
  • ?Future maintenance
  • crate is probably better
• where do we stop the curlification of nushell http?
  • remains an open debate

-> reply we would like it from a crate over having to maintain the parser

Software-BOM/License file tracking

• we need to make sure we have the right attributions if necessary
• what to package as a license file when shipping a binary?

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXDG config home

Darren ran into the chicken egg situation with env.nu setting a XDG_CONFIG_HOME
-> after the release there will be confusion
-> building a lint that works global would probably be too much so should be local to our config file

• diff env before and after config loading

Subshell behavior (first nu launches without XDG, inner nu will )

subshell/calling nu script from nu

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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