Last Week in Pony - July 15, 2018

[jdhorwitz]

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[SeanTAllen]

A new beginner friendly issue has landed for the Pony compiler? Want to give it a shot:

ponylang/ponyc#2821

[SeanTAllen]

Due to confusion caused by its name, we are going to rename our little package manager pony-stable to a new name.

Got a name to nominate? Want to vote on options? Chime in on the issue:

ponylang/pony-stable#75

[SeanTAllen]

Audio from the July 11th Pony Development Sync call is now available:

https://pony.groups.io/g/dev/files/Pony%20Sync/2018_07_11

[dipinhora]

With the merge of ponylang/ponyc#2810, we now have automated CI for non x86-64 Linux platforms.

The current working/passing new CI builds are:

• arm - LLVM 3.9.1, 4.01, 5.0.1, 6.0.0
• armhf - LLVM 3.9.1, 4.01, 5.0.1, 6.0.0
• aarch64 - LLVM 3.9.1, 4.01, 5.0.1

And currently failing new CI builds (and are either marked as allow_failures or commented out in travis.yml) are:

• i686 - LLVM 3.9.1, 4.01, 5.0.1, 6.0.0 (for all LLVM versions: segfault in optimized version of stdlib tests regardless of debug or release build of pony; Optimized compile of serialise/Failures causes abort on x86 ponyc#1576 has some more info)
• aarch64 - LLVM 6.0.0 (Some sort of uncaught signal when running the debug stdlib tests; not sure what/why as I haven't dug into it)

The failing builds might be a good way for folks to get involved (although the issues may or may not be "beginner friendly").

[SeanTAllen]

New beginner friendly issue with our little dependency manager that could "pony-stable". Interested in contributing? We have a flakey integration test, could you be the person to fix it? We think you could be:

ponylang/pony-stable#76

[aturley]

I've been working on material for a Pony workshop that I've been giving (and will present at ICFP in September). It is now in a state where I think it is useful, and I'd love to get feedback on it.

https://github.com/aturley/pony-workshop

[SeanTAllen]

Apparently Brian Callahan has Pony working on OpenBSD. Here's to hoping he opens a PR at some point.

https://twitter.com/__briancallahan/status/1018263079816134657