Misc #20949: DevMeeting-2025-01-09

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

The next dev meeting

Date: 2025/01/09 13:00-17:00 (JST)
Log: https://github.com/ruby/dev-meeting-log/tree/master/2025

• Dev meeting IS NOT a decision-making place. All decisions should be done at the bug tracker.
• Dev meeting is a place we can ask Matz, nobu, nurse and other developers directly.
• Matz is a very busy person. Take this opportunity to ask him. If you can not attend, other attendees can ask instead of you (if attendees can understand your issue).
• We will write a record of the discussion in the file or to each ticket in English.
• All activities are best-effort (keep in mind that most of us are volunteer developers).
• The date, time and place of the meeting are scheduled according to when/where we can reserve Matz's time.
• DO NOT discuss then on this ticket, please.

Call for agenda items

If you have a ticket that you want matz and committers to discuss, please post it into this ticket in the following format:

* [Ticket ref] Ticket title (your name)
  * Comment (A summary of the ticket, why you put this ticket here, what point should be discussed, etc.)

Example:

* [Feature #14609] `Kernel#p` without args shows the receiver (ko1)
  * I feel this feature is very useful and some people say :+1: so let discuss this feature.

• It is recommended to add a comment by 2025/01/06. We hold a preparatory meeting to create an agenda a few days before the dev-meeting.
• The format is strict. We'll use this script to automatically create an markdown-style agenda. We may ignore a comment that does not follow the format.
• Your comment is mandatory. We cannot read all discussion of the ticket in a limited time. We appreciate it if you could write a short summary and update from a previous discussion.

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Related to Misc #14770: [META] DevelopersMeeting added

[byroot (Jean Boussier)]

• [Feature #20993] Allow class <constant-path> = <expression> syntax (byroot)
  • Useful for defining Struct and Data subclasses. See [Bug #20943]
  • It's just sugar for <constant-path> = <expression>; class <constant-path>
  • Would be allowed for module as well.
• [Feature #20878] A new C API to create a String by adopting a pointer (byroot)
  • Following the last discussion I think the API could receive a pointer to the free function to use.
  • e.g. str = rb_enc_str_adopt(buf->ptr, buf->len, buf->capa, rb_utf8_encoding(), free);
  • This allow the API to fallback to a copy if the free function isn't compatible with ruby_xfree

[Eregon (Benoit Daloze)]

• [Feature #21005] Update the source location method to include line start/stop and column start/stop details (eregon)
  • How about adding end line and start/end columns to #source_location? It seems straightforward and compatible.
  • How about a new #code_location method returning an object with line/column/offset info and also a convenient method to return the source code snippet of that location? See https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21005#note-3

[sampersand2 (Sam Westerman)]

• [Feature #21015] Add in a -g flag, like -s but with a few more quality of life features (sampersand2)
  • There's a hole in ruby for very simple argument processing to very short scripts (<=10 lines.)
  • The -s flag somewhat fills this, but most egregiously doesn't let you chain shortform options (-abc != -a -b -c).
  • I've gotten positive sentiment from quite a few people on the Ruby discord about this, so I think it's worth discussing

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Closed