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16:54:48
jcowan
skin: Yak shaving is different: it means the unexpected and annoying things you have to do to get something working that should Just Work without fuss
16:55:59
skin
NotThatRPG was mentioning that in order to solve his problem, he may have to add something to FiveAM. I'd call that Yak Shaving by that definition :)
17:21:20
Pirx
jcowan: this is the modern incarnation of an old type of story, I bet that there's one of that kind in Arabian Nights... the hero needs some magical item and its owner accepts lending it in exchange for some other precious item in the hands of someone else that in turn ask for another item... last time I saw it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709201/
17:29:17
skin
doulous05: I tried to fix your build, here's the PR: https://github.com/jonathanabennett/megastrike/pull/13
17:29:17
skin
I hope you can at least glean something from it as it took me waaaay to long to get it to where it is now. Best of luck!
20:08:17
Shinmera
And I definitely would never have made a game if there hadn't been someone (read: me) to shave that many yaks
20:12:20
Colleen
NotThatRPG: bike said at 2023.10.23 15:29:28: not sure if you saw what I said, but ansi test RT supports expected failures now. If alexandria already uses RT it might be simple to adapt that code.
20:13:05
NotThatRPG
Colleen: Thanks! I will have a look. Maybe I can pull the patches for expected failures over.
20:13:05
Colleen
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20:16:11
yitzi
NotThatRPG: let me know if you need assistance. I wrote the expected failure stuff for ansi-test.
20:18:35
NotThatRPG
yitzi: Thanks! I think the big question is what to do to integrate this into Alexandria. The easy route is to monkey-patch, but that's yucky. The problem is that Alexandria just loads stock RT.
20:21:18
Pirx
Shinmera: the real yak story is not that someone shaves a yak, but that someone does nothing because there's too much to do before doing it. If you've already made a game, it doesn't apply to you
20:21:20
NotThatRPG
Replacing it for this purpose with "alexandria-rt" is probably required. But I wish someone would either maintain RT, or put it out of our misery
20:22:13
NotThatRPG
I'd be willing to replace Alexandria's tests with a diff test library, but only one that's demonstrably better.
20:28:33
NotThatRPG
Apparently not: "aks are native to Tibet and are most suited to a colder climate, where there is a winter, but they can tolerate hot summers as long as they have some shade and easy access to water. Yaks don’t sweat, so they can’t rely on evaporative cooling. They will want shade for protection from the sun during summer. Some ranchers will use a sprinkler system to artificially create evaporative cooling. "