| 01:00 | <MikeSmith> | Mitar: yeah, kind of surprising the Chrome team hasn't fixed/implemented that yet |
| 05:22 | <MikeSmith> | after looking at https://github.com/whatwg/html-build/issues/55 ("Explore creating a Docker image with wattsi and other build dependencies") it all looks great for what it is, but I now don't understand what problem the end result is actually going to solve for us |
| 05:23 | <MikeSmith> | for one thing I notice that it's not actually building a wattsi binary, but instead just using wattsi-server |
| 05:24 | <MikeSmith> | and to me the whole point of having a Docker image was so contributors could run wattsi locally without needing to build it (and to build fpc in order to build wattsi) |
| 05:25 | <MikeSmith> | and also so that contributors wouldn't need to hit the network in order to generate the spec |
| 05:26 | <MikeSmith> | so I think I am now coming around to wondering instead if we should just distribute wattsi binaries (for OSX and Windows and Linux) |
| 05:26 | <MikeSmith> | I can build the OSX and Linux (AMD64) ones |
| 05:33 | <Hixie_> | clearly the solution is for everyone to download fpc |
| 07:39 | <MikeSmith> | Hixie_: I'm happy enough with that solution personally |
| 07:41 | <MikeSmith> | would just like to avoid the cases of somebody who wants to contribute but gets annoyed/frustrated from teh get-go at needing to compile dependencies, then just gives up and never contributes |
| 07:42 | <MikeSmith> | Hixie_: anyway on the plus side, I notice that my OSX wattsi doesn't dynamically link to anything exotic |
| 07:42 | <MikeSmith> | $ otool -L /opt/workspace/wattsi/bin/wattsi |
| 07:43 | <MikeSmith> | /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1226.10.1) |
| 07:44 | <MikeSmith> | so if we do distribute an OSX binary, it should be runnable on any modern OSX system, I'd think |
| 08:04 | <MikeSmith> | the Linux binary is completely statically linked |
| 13:47 | <terinjokes> | MikeSmith: set the clang flags for minimum OS X version (I see 10.8 and 10.9 often in consumer software, nowadays) |
| 14:22 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: it does indeed seem like Zhang did the work, perhaps we can email him and ask him if he's okay with us listing that as a translation? |
| 14:24 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: I was thinking we just add "Languages:" at the top, similar to Wikipedia and list it there along with a disclaimer on these not being normative |
| 14:35 | <annevk> | MikeSmith: asking you since I don't know Zhang's email |
| 14:35 | <annevk> | hmm, maybe I do |
| 17:49 | <annevk> | done |
| 17:52 | <Domenic> | MikeSmith: it should use the wattsi binary in its final form |
| 18:50 | <Hixie_> | yeah when i wrote wattsi i didn't depend on anything outside of my own libraries and the basic rtl provided by fpc |
| 18:50 | <Hixie_> | it doesn't even depend on a libc |
| 20:39 | <nox> | TIL wattsi is a pokémon. |