Last Week in Pony - February 27, 2022

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[SeanTAllen]

Audio from the February 22, 2022 Pony development sync is available: https://sync-recordings.ponylang.io/r/2022_02_22.m4a.

Highlights include a good discussion around revisiting the "explicit self member access" RFC

[SeanTAllen]

Approved RFCS:

• Change standard library object capabilities pattern
• Add PonyCheck to the standard library
• Remove logger package from standard library

Implemented RFCS:

• Change standard library object capabilities pattern
• Add PonyCheck to the standard library
• Remove logger package from standard library

[ponylang-main]

Version 1.0.0 of ponylang/logger has been released.
See the release notes for more details.

[ponylang-main]

Version 0.49.0 of ponylang/ponyc has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.5.0 of ponylang/library-documentation-action has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.2.4 of ponylang/semver has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.2.1 of ponylang/reactive_streams has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 1.0.1 of ponylang/logger has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.1.5 of ponylang/appdirs has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.1.4 of ponylang/peg has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.6.2 of ponylang/valbytes has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 1.1.5 of ponylang/crypto has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.5.7 of ponylang/corral has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 1.1.5 of ponylang/regex has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.1.1 of ponylang/fork_join has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 1.2.1 of ponylang/net_ssl has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.5.2 of ponylang/http has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 1.0.6 of ponylang/glob has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.2.3 of ponylang/templates has been released.
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[ponylang-main]

Version 0.4.1 of ponylang/http_server has been released.
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[SeanTAllen]

Version 0.2.1 of seantallen-org/lori has been released.
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[SeanTAllen]

Version 0.2.5 of seantallen-org/msgpack has been released.
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[SeanTAllen]

We've changed how "releases" are done for the library-documentation-action. Previously, we did numbered releases like you would see from ponyc, corral, and other ponylang organization projects. Doing numbered releases came with a serious drawback.

We had to do a new version of the action each time a new ponyc with breaking changes was released and then every user of the action had to update to the latest version before they released updated documentation for their library to match the new ponyc version. This sucked. It was a lot of extra work. It was especially painful knowing that we were working towards removing the need for the library-documentation-action entirely.

The library-documentation-action has always been a temporary solution with Sean T. Allen works towards bringing better documentation generation fully "into the compiler". Given that, we feel that the action is "feature complete" and that we won't be making any more changes to it. All releases going forward are expected to be updates to get a new ponyc version. Given that, we have changed how releases are done.

The library-documentation-action now a docker image with two tags in DockerHub for your use. The release tag is updated each time a new ponyc version comes out and has the most recent ponyc release. The latest tag is updated each time there's a new ponyc nightly release and has the most recent nightly ponyc.

See the library-documentation-action example workflows for the small change you'll need to make in your action usage to stay up-to-date.