drbrain changed the topic of #rubygems to: RubyGems 2.0.2: http://bit.ly/rubygems-2-0-2 – Latest status: http://twitter.com/rubygems_status and http://status.rubygems.org
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<qrush> i dont know who put a twitter widget on http://status.rubygems.org/ but awesome idea :clap:
<drbrain> qrush: is there any way we can get a proper SSL certificate on https://help.rubygems.org
<qrush> I have no idea.
<qrush> Probably not.
<qrush> Maybe it's time to look into a different help thing?
<qrush> Tender has been really slow.
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<drbrain> it's plenty convenient though
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<qrush> yeah i see nothing in the account settings about it
<qrush> i'm wiped. night.
<drbrain> thanks for checknig
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<samkottler> drbrain: I suppose help.rubygems.org could be proxied through the load balancer and then a wildcard will be fine
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<kalleth> can someone clarify _why_ rubygems needs to make 200-250 requests to rubygems just to figure out which version of Rack to install?
<kalleth> hence me staring at 2000+ get requests for 15mins+ for a single gem install command?
<drbrain> naive dependency resolution
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<drbrain> when the index was built it was dumb
<kalleth> which index? the one on my local machine or the one on the remote?
<drbrain> now we have a well-tested smart index we can lean on
<kalleth> or the one for the gem installed
<drbrain> there is only the remote index
<kalleth> I apologise if my comment on the rubygems issue was a bit 'short' btw
<kalleth> but its frustrating staring at a console for 20mins not being able to do anything :)
<drbrain> where in the world are you/
<drbrain> ?
<kalleth> UK
<drbrain> I think there's a european mirror
<drbrain> evan: ↑
<kalleth> well, it's still making $lol requests
<drbrain> you may be dealing with an ocean's worth of latency as well
<kalleth> downloading seems to be a very very minor amount of the time used
<evan> kalleth: i'm trying it here to see
<kalleth> i tried with standard uk dns and google dns too to see if it was my dns provider, but each request taking a second or so
<kalleth> evan: my exact command on osx lion was $ sudo gem install refinerycms
<drbrain> there are only two DNS lookups, so changing DNS won't make a difference
<kalleth> sec i'll check gem env to see what versions of everything i'm doing
<drbrain> kalleth: rubygems version won't matter
<drbrain> the index was built for a simpler time
<kalleth> ruby 1.9.3-p392, rubygems 2.0.3
<drbrain> when there weren't 300,000+ gems
<drbrain> (all releases)
<kalleth> ah, so it's just getting worse as (for example) rails release a new version and bumping fifty billion sub-gem-versions
<evan> yep
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<drbrain> fortunately gems don't change so once you've downloaded a spec it won't be re-downloaded
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<evan> anyway, yeah, we've discussed a european mirror
<evan> but nothing is setup yet.
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<evan> drbrain: going to RailsConf?
<drbrain> evan: unlikely
<evan> if you were, we could hack on it there
<drbrain> I've been thinking about coming down for a hallway track
<evan> etiher way, I'll put it on my todo list.
<drbrain> but I haven't made room arangements
<kalleth> i guess if you can speed up each request from 200ms to 20ms using a european mirror you get a vast speedup
<drbrain> kalleth: yep
<kalleth> though surely the root of the problem is the naivete of the dependency resolution?
<drbrain> it is
<evan> actually
<evan> i'll just bite the bullet
<evan> and see about setting it up now.
<drbrain> kalleth: rubygems trunk uses the smarter index we have now
<drbrain> so the 2.1 release should show improvement for those of you that are a long way (latency wise) from a mirror
<drbrain> hopefully next week I'll be able to weed through the tracker and prioritize issues for 2.1 vs later
<kalleth> that's good news
<kalleth> thanks for tempering my angry rage :)
<kalleth> and again, sorry if i was a bit sharp with my comment on gh/rubygems/rubygems
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<drbrain> kalleth: if you have some spare time, can you download github.com/rubygems/rubygems and run `rm -r ~/.gem/specs; ruby -Ilib bin/gem install --install-dir ~/tmp/gems whatever_it_was`
<drbrain> and compare to 2.0.3?
<kalleth> erm, sure
<kalleth> i'll do it now
<kalleth> well
<drbrain> whenever
<kalleth> i'm using rbenv
<kalleth> i assume that changes some of the commands :
<kalleth> :)
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* kalleth checks gem env to see where the specs go
<drbrain> at this time ~/.gem/specs isn't changeable, trunk has a patch for that submitted by either the rbenv or rvm folks
<kalleth> ah, same place
<kalleth> i'll mv ~/.gem/specs out of the way rathe rthan remove if
<kalleth> it
<kalleth> if thats ok
<kalleth> so i can move it back after :)
<drbrain> sure
<mpapis> drbrain, it was me ;)
<kalleth> not that it matters, that cmd will redownload them
<drbrain> I should run some install tests with the Network Link Conditioner pref pane
<drbrain> it should simulate some latency
<mpapis> drbrain, I will have a question / discussion if you are up to talk in some time (helping someone right now)
<kalleth> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooounning
<kalleth> what the fuck
<kalleth> my keyboard just locked down, gg macos
<drbrain> mpapis: probably
<kalleth> rofl
<mpapis> ok I will ping you when I finally can talk ...
<kalleth> drbrain: 30 seconds vs 15 minutes
<kalleth> new/old
<drbrain> kalleth: wow!
<drbrain> thanks for the data point
<drbrain> evan: good job ↑
<kalleth> i think thats deserving of an attaboy for both of you
<kalleth> and if i ever make it to any kind of american rails / ruby conf i will buy you a pint
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<drbrain> I will be in Japan for RubyKaigi!
<drbrain> I haven't made it to europe for a conference yet
<kalleth> I won't be in Japan
<kalleth> I'm stuck in the UK and i can't afford to self-fund international ruby/rails conf trips :)
<evan> wooo!
<evan> it wasn't for nothing!
<evan> GO TEAM!
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<evan> drbrain: we should figure out when we want to release that.
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<kalleth> evan: my vote is 'soon'
<evan> mine too!
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<mpapis> drbrain, is there an interface in rubygms to define external dependencies and a callback to run installation of them?
<drbrain> mpapis: there is not
<mpapis> would be a PR with it had chance to get accepted ?
<evan> we've explicitly avoid such a thing.
<evan> avoided
<drbrain> does this mean external dependencies like libxml2?
<mpapis> yes
<drbrain> if so, it's unlikely
<evan> it's too easily to abuse it.
<mpapis> or libmyslq
<evan> oh that
<evan> no
<evan> well
<Defiler> No offense but I stopped using rvm forever the day that feature got added
<evan> it's so difficult to do properly
<evan> answer the question "where is libmysql.so from" for all the linux distro
<drbrain> especially so in a cross-platform manner
<evan> for example
<evan> I know why you want it
<Defiler> rubygems needs to be less like a package manager, not more, IMO
<mpapis> I know it's difficult, but I;m eager to try it out, it will not be enabled unless the callback is defined
<evan> but it's an almost intractable problem.
<drbrain> mpapis: there are sufficient hooks to implement it as a plugin
<evan> mpapis: you'd be better off having a seperate tool
<evan> gem sysdeps nokogiri
<drbrain> mpapis: if one is missing, we can definitely consider a pull request to add it
<mpapis> but there is no field to define the external dependencies ?
<evan> it would install the external deps for nokogiri
<ddd> evan: thats more due to pkg naming is it not?
<drbrain> mpapis: RubyGems 2 has metadata
<drbrain> so you can use that
<evan> yep
<evan> and your tool can check the metadata
<mpapis> ah that's great, I will investigate, thanks
<evan> ddd: it's true of all the variables
<evan> variable 1: what command to you run to install a package
<evan> variable 2: what is the package
<evan> both are intractable across time and space.
<evan> thats some hyperbole, but you get the idea.
<drbrain> there's a requirements field in the gemspec that nobody uses as well
<drbrain> I think it was intended for this type of feature
<kalleth> i always, always forget libxslt
<kalleth> when installing ruby
<kalleth> _always_
<evan> ha
<evan> ditto.
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<ddd> evan: gotcha. agree with you
<evan> a trivial example is: someone install mysql by hand
<evan> what do you do?
<ddd> depends. did they install in FHS specified locations which means headers and the like would be in normaly searched dirs for both headers and bins?
<ddd> i get your point though, way to freakin easy to cross the ease-of-use line and veer far into ok wtf
<ddd> s/way to/way too/
<drbrain> FHS is only a linux standard
<drbrain> AIX, for example, won't follow t
<kalleth> evan: wget mysql.tar.gz, alias yoloinstall='tar zxvf file.tar.gz; cd file; ./configure && make && make install'; yoloinstall
<Defiler> does Ruby 2.0 still support VMS or did that get dropped at the end of the 1.8 line?
<ddd> but it does have a high degree of compatability to *bsd and others. (/usr/local is usually searched)
<kalleth> i'm going to go back to trying to work now rather than make snarky comments
<ddd> drbrain: but, again, i'm in agreement with the point he was making. *ensuring* is almost impossible
<drbrain> Defiler: I don't think there's a VMS maintainer
<evan> such a feature would be negatiated with a OS vendor
<drbrain> … but I don't think there's an AIX or HP-UX maintainer either, but ruby has a fair amount of users for each
<evan> and we'd integrated it with as they integrate with us.
<Defiler> it seems to me that if extconf just returned a structured error about what was missing, you could offer some interesting prompts/options upon install
<drbrain> at least, enough that I read the occasional bug report
<ddd> evan: wrt dep pkg install support?
<evan> for instance, why the fuck is it so hard to ask a linux distro: install the package that has mysql.h please
<Defiler> but honestly, this is really what packages are for and I think it would be failuretastic for rubygems to try to take it on
<ddd> ah, because not many maintain that type of reverse listing (ala apt-file search)
<drbrain> Defiler: that's why I've always resisted it
<Defiler> short answer: because linux distros are horrible
<Defiler> Yes, even your favorite one
<ddd> deb based are the only ones i know of that do, and thats because debian came up with it
<drbrain> Defiler: I don't have a favorite linux distro, so I'm safe
<evan> ha
<Defiler> dodged that bullet
<ddd> heh
<evan> the path from a C header and it's shared libarry to a rubygem is massive
<Defiler> we should go add cross-compile support to .deb and express it all in a meta-language that can emit arbitrary types of packages and then suck that into rubygems as a pull request
<evan> because of the OS vendor is in between there
<evan> how about
<evan> gem brute nokogiri
<evan> it would analyze the extconf errors
<evan> and just start hammering on the system
<evan> trying whatever the fuck it wants
<Defiler> I wish I could show you this pull request from work, but it's probably not for public consumption
<evan> trying to get it to complete
<Defiler> starts out as an attempt to add a gem to the Gemfile for a project.. ends up as a 1000-line diff
<evan> hahah
<Defiler> that's why I'm 100% confident packages are intractable
<ddd> there's just so many potential permutations i don't see how you could account for even half the possibles. you'd end up with a nightmare. and thats just at a single pkg depth, nevermind their deps.
<Defiler> It's hard enough to add a pure-ruby gem to an existing environment, much less backtrack to which mysql.h you wanted
<Defiler> Hell, if we could account for 1% of the possibilities I would call that a huge win
<Defiler> I think that estimate is off by a factor of 10^50 or so
<ddd> but as drbrain alluded to how would you account for that on platforms that don't have a high degree of similarity (or none at all like in the case of windows)
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<evan> there are success in software, i think we need to look at them and build on them
<evan> for instance, tar and gzip are huge successes
<evan> most package systems just use those.
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<evan> so why is the layer after that completely fractured?
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<evan> i think it's because people didn't write small bits that did small things.
<ddd> vender choices :)
<evan> they wrote a big monolithic thing
<evan> which left other vendors completely redoing it
<evan> instead of building upon it.
<evan> thats my personal opinion.
<evan> it shouldn't matter what a distro calls it's packages, honestly.
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<evan> you should be able to ask for a feature "mysql.h and libmysqlclient.so" and it just installs whatever it needs to.
<evan> the header names aren't up to the opinion of the vendors.
* paulsher2ood and colleagues aim to remove the whole idea of packaging - everything from git all the time
<evan> thats a nice idea
<paulsher2ood> thank you :)
<evan> but I feel it's still too big.
<evan> honestly.
<Defiler> If git had a feature where an entry in the index could have a 'static tarball of this state available at this url' attached to it
<Defiler> that could be keen
<Defiler> without it, I'm skeptical.. git gets nasty on large projects
<evan> and with large files
<Defiler> oh yeah
<evan> it's like sucking your steak through a straw.
<paulsher2ood> we're doing it, starting ffor embedded - baserock.org
<Defiler> hah
<Defiler> interesting; I almost bought one of your rigs
<paulsher2ood> the arm servers?
<Defiler> yeah
<paulsher2ood> cool!
<Defiler> then the E3v2 Xeons came out, sorry :)
<paulsher2ood> heh
<paulsher2ood> if your target is intel, that's way cheaper
<Defiler> Yeah, not a 100% fair comparison :)
<evan> some year I'll figure out how to get some time set aside (months) to get ulysses 1.0 out.
<paulsher2ood> but this packaging thing is a nightmare everyone needs to wake up from, imo
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<paulsher2ood> kinda strange i'm saying this here - rubygems is probably the *best* packaging system i've seen
<paulsher2ood> ie works well most of the time
<drbrain> such a high bar!
<paulsher2ood> heh
<Defiler> That's the thing.. nobody's major software project has ever relied on underlying depenencies 'just magically appearing'
<paulsher2ood> yup
<Defiler> there's always an 'ops' layer that ensures it
<Defiler> package managers never HAD to get good
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<paulsher2ood> we've had to break circular dependencies on loads of stuff...
<evan> Defiler: totally
<drbrain> RubyGems is all "circular dependency? meh!"
<Defiler> if we weren't allowed to use the shell when deploying software things would be waaay different
<paulsher2ood> gcc now or soon will need C++ to compile, for example :(
<evan> paulsher2ood: thankfully the industry has fewer and fewer hardware platforms and executable formats
<evan> such that soon, a C compiler will be bootstrapping
<evan> like a BIOS.
<paulsher2ood> indeed... but we're bringing big endian arm to the masses ;)
<evan> I think that will (eventually) be a big reason LLVM + clang take over
<paulsher2ood> +1
<evan> there is a time coming when a C/C++ compiler will just be a part of your infrastructure
<evan> a library that is invoked to prepare work.
<Defiler> It would be neat if your EFI layer provided the assembler, and your C compiler bootstrapped from that
<evan> autotools must be defeated first.
<evan> there is the linux bootloader that was a C compiler
<evan> that compiled the kernel from source on every boot.
<paulsher2ood> we're being pretty hardcore... we bootstrap the toolchain every time... then use that to build the system
<Defiler> If you meet autotools Buddha on the path, kill him.
<evan> he will exclaim "oh sweet release. you have set me free"
<paulsher2ood> we automagic autotools... i'm not saying we like it, though
<evan> and then explode into a flurry of glowing butterflies
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<evan> paulsher2ood: what is your init process written in
<evan> thats one thing that I think needs a giant overhaul
<paulsher2ood> python
<evan> cool, good to hear.
<paulsher2ood> i'm surrounded by guys that know better than me :)
<paulsher2ood> we have a religious thing looming though, about how to best handle rubygems
<paulsher2ood> our philosophical basis is eveything in git
* paulsher2ood wonders if he could ever like anything in c++ again
<evan> paulsher2ood: you can run gem install and check the gem/ dir into your git repo
<Defiler> Oh yeah I was going to mention.. I've been playing with Marius a bit
<Defiler> I'm thinking of writing an impl of it using Rust to help me learn both
<evan> do it.
<paulsher2ood> evan: interesting, tvm
<Defiler> Yeah, got nothing to do at work so I might as well
<evan> hah
<paulsher2ood> so the gem dir is all the source, and only the source?
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<evan> the install dir has a gems/ dir which is the install gems, yeah
<Defiler> an installed gem dir also, if applicable, contains the compiled native libraries
<evan> there is a cache/ dir that has the actual .gem files
<Defiler> but if you mean the 'GEM_PATH' / 'GEM_HOME' then yeha
<evan> but you can actually just nuke that dir, it's not used at runtime
<Defiler> evan: https://github.com/evanphx/marius/blob/master/vm/builtin/os.buffer.cpp is totally what extensions should look like
<evan> gem install -i /gem/repo nokogir && git add /gem/repo/gems && git commit
<evan> Defiler: my thinking exactly.
<evan> cimple is really marius flavored C++
<evan> a highlevel preprocessor
<evan> check out cimple/file.mr and os.file.cpp
<evan> you can see that imports between them work
<Defiler> Will do
<evan> file imports buffer to have a #fill method
<Defiler> I'm interested in building a flavor of it on rust so I can try leaning 100% on its concurrency primitives
<Defiler> I want to see how that boundary works, between a dynlang and its primitives
<evan> cool cool
<Defiler> paulsher2ood: huh.. I just ran into this idea and thought of what you were just saying re: git.. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3682825&cid=43541379
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<Defiler> I don't think the .torrent format is a good fit but something with those properties would be handy
<Defiler> basically, all we need is a way to distribute secure index fingerprints and urls
<Defiler> (incrementally)
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<paulsher2ood> Defiler: thank you - very cool idea
<Defiler> I feel like the 'next' protocol will have learned something from both bloom filters and bitcoins (in particular the 'validation chain' stuff for incremental appends)
<Defiler> also, practical BT experience has shown that it's not important to be able to see the whole 'swarm'
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