11:07 <SeanTAllen> Hi folks, a new "Last Week in Pony" is out: https://www.ponylang.org/blog/2017/05/last-week-in-pony---may-14-2017/

15:16 <dougmacdoug> has anyone used pony-zmq to communicate with node.js (or some other non-pony app using zeromq ipc)

20:34 <dougmacdoug_> anyone used zeromq to IPC with a diff language? going to try with nodejs

21:26 <SeanTAllen> dougmacdoug_: that i'm not sure of. jemc would probably be the most likely to know.

21:30 <dougmacdoug_> should i just put 3rd party packages into the packages folder? I can get 1 to work with use "package:///xyz" but then if xyz uses even a standard package its not finding it.. (windows)

21:47 <dougmacdoug_> im battin zero today.. cant compile sodium

21:53 <SeanTAllen> i'm not sure if jemc has kept sodium up to date.

21:53 <SeanTAllen> dougmacdoug_: i'd suggest using `pony-stable` to manage those external dependencies: https://github.com/ponylang/pony-stable

21:54 <dougmacdoug_> i couldnt get it to run on windows

21:54 <SeanTAllen> if sodium doesn't compile with lastest Pony, I know jemc would appreciate a PR to fix (or an issue reporting what the problems are).

21:54 <SeanTAllen> ah that i'm not sure about, i've never used sodium. i'd open an issue.

21:54 <SeanTAllen> also, jemc is usually around on IRC during weekdays (PST)

21:56 <dougmacdoug_> ok.. i'll check back in when he's on.. i am working on getting an electron front-end to work with pony.. need to get zeromq running tho..

21:57 <dougmacdoug_> got it working a bit using stdin/out but its pretty clunky without proper messaging

21:58 <SeanTAllen> if you need help getting pony-stable going, let me know. i'm not sure if it works on Windows. And beside that, we are lacking good documentation for it at the moment.

22:01 <FunkyBob> it's a weekday here :P

22:24 <SeanTAllen> thats what you get for starting it on Friday!

22:25 <FunkyBob> pfft

22:25 <FunkyBob> it's Moonday morning

22:50 <dougmacdoug_> is static array initialization documented anywhere?

23:06 <SeanTAllen> dougmacdoug_: see https://tutorial.ponylang.org/pattern-matching/as.html "Specify the type of items in an array literal"

23:07 <dougmacdoug_> tried compiling zmq on releases 0.10, 0.11, and beta 0.13.2 .. every one gets different compile errors.. hanging it up for awhile probably come back to it later in the week

23:09 <dougmacdoug_> thx for the doc ref

23:10 <SeanTAllen> beta 0.13.2 ?

23:11 <SeanTAllen> dougmacdoug_: you're welcome

23:12 <dougmacdoug_> ponyc-0.13.2-2859.e3c67a3-win64