* Add --ghc-repo-override flag to override GHC used in daml-sdk-head build
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* Add BAZEL_MODE_FLAGS to third `bazel build` call
Process:
- `git ls-files -z | xargs -0 -n 100 sed -i --follow-symlinks 's/DAML/Daml/g'`
- `git add -p`
- `git restore -p`
- Check there is no unstaged change left.
To review:
- Check for false positives by carefully reviewing the diff in this PR.
- Check for false negatives with `git grep DAML`.
- Quicker check for fals positives:
```
git grep DAML | grep -v migration | grep -v DAML_
```
Fixes#13190
Note: This is the "second half" of #13191, which failed to cover all the
remaining DAMLs because of:
```
$ git ls-files | grep "'"
compiler/damlc/tests/daml-test-files/MangledScenario'.daml
```
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This PR speeds up the Maven installation by doing 4 things:
1. Disable TS builds. This doesn’t make sense since we never install
them.
2. Add a --skip-sdk option that skips the SDK installation.
3. Add a --skip-jar-docs option that skips javadoc and more
importantly scaladoc.
4. Add a --scala-version=$VERSION option to only build against the
given version.
Unfortunately there are no tests and the CLI is a bit messy (you need
--scala-version=$VERSION and not --scala-version $VERSION).
Both are not great but this is a development only tool and it is bash
so my motivation for fixing it is rather low.
Given that this is growing in complexity a fair bit, I think we might
be better off as a long-term solution to move this towards at least
python or maybe even Haskell or Scala. But definitely nothing for this
PR.
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* Release EE SDK tarballs and installer
As before, no way of testing this. I’ll do a snapshot afterwards.
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* .
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* Rename EE artifacts
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When running daml-sdk-head from circleci without set-path=no, the
installation fails because the assistant tries to get a Yes/No answer
from stdin (which is not available).
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daml-sdk-head: add optional sha information
This PR add an option, `--sha`, to `daml-sdk-head` so that it produces a
more accurate version number including the current git sha.
The main consequence is that calling `daml-sdk-head --sha` take
significantly longer than calling `daml-sdk-head`, because it needs to
recompile everything that depends on the version number.
> ## Wait, but why??
I started this work in support of an internal project that needed to
test against unreleased, and possibly unmerged, daml versions. However,
after further discussion I believe there is a better option for their
use-case. I've decided to still open this PR because the work was done
and there is no downside to it. It may still be useful if one wanted to
be able to maintain more than one non-released local version of daml.
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We don’t want to pass all flags as a single string. If we don’t have
any flags (which is the default) we end up passing an empty string
which breaks Bazel.
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* ADD: Change most Slack references to forum references where appropriate
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Replace references to Slack with references to discuss.daml.com
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* ADD: Change issue template support link from SO to forum
* ADD: Add back Slack links
Bash is not easy to add to dev-env because dev-env depends on Bash. This
has not been an issue so far because Bash behaves in very sensible ways
overall and is mostly backwards compatible.
A recent change to `daml-sdk-head` is, however, using some feature of
Bash 4 that is not evailable in Bash 3. Bash 3 is ancient so in an ideal
world that would not be an issue, but macOS still ships with Bash 3 for
some obscure (licensing) reason.
It turns our that the line
```bash
arr=()
```
in Bash 4 sets the variable `arr` to an empty array, whereas it leaves it
unset in Bash 3. This means that the later use of `arr`, in the case
where no further element has been added to the array, will yield an
error in combination with the `set -u` option we are using.
This PR changes the usage pattern from
```bash
"${arr[@]}"
```
which fails on Bash 3 to
```bash
${arr[@]:-}
```
which works as expected. Note that the quotes have been removed: the
quotes in this case are not useful assuming that the flags themselves
are never multiword. Without the quotes, this evaluates to `""` under
Bash 3 (as the variable is not set), which confuses Bazel because now it
thinks it's asked to build the `""` target, which it has no rule for.
Ignoring the quoting issue, the actual fix is to include `:-` inside the
`{}`, which instructs Bash to replace the variable with what follows the
`-` in case the variable is not set (in this case, an empty string), and
therefore not crash on this specific variable not being set despite the
`set -u` option.
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* daml-sdk-head: Quote all variables.
And use arrays where necessary.
* daml-sdk-head: Use Bash tests (`[[` and `]]`) rather than `test`.
Most importantly, they support the `&&` and `||` operators, because
they're a shell builtin, not a program.
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* daml-sdk-head: Refer to `${BASH_SOURCE[0]}` explicitly.
`BASH_SOURCE` is an array. Expanding an array gets the first element, but this
is unclear. We can clarify by explicitly expanding the first element.
* daml-sdk-head: Use `command -v` instead of `which`, as it's more standard.
* daml-sdk-head: Use semicolons judiciously.
* Use com.daml as groupId for all artifacts
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[SDK] Changed the groupId for Maven artifacts to ``com.daml``.
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* Add 2 additional maven related checks to the release binary
1. Check that all maven upload artifacts use com.daml as the groupId
2. Check that all maven upload artifacts have a unique artifactId
* Address @cocreature's comments in https://github.com/digital-asset/daml/pull/5272#pullrequestreview-385026181
Context
=======
After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and
process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a
distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other
words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test
without making it an officially-supported version, and without
necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of
upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable
"official" releases.
This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the
following constraints:
- Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize
effort but also chances of disruptions.
- Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are
not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy
users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just
swapping in a slightly-weirder version string).
- Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official"
release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be
confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease.
- Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of
releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to
promote a snapshot to an official release.
- Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can
keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability.
The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with
a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format:
```
ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7
```
This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in
producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be
largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST`
and the release notes files.
Version numbers
===============
Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published
version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot
releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that;
unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different
version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into
too much detail:
- Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK
version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as
"metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be
`1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string
always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease"
(after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`)
parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments
separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an
alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and
any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main"
version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in
order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones
compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1,
which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2.
- Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a
`-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings
are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as
numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be
one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot"
for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a
qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`,
which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a
special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are
compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix
(`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`).
- GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments
separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric
"version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official
documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are
compared as numbers.
- npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already.
After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up
with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First,
obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to
be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works,
and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we
shall use the following (semver) format:
```
0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7
```
where the components are, respectively:
- `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release.
- `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough.
- `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on
master.
- `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit
(included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this
uniquely identifies the commit.
- `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is
not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to
identify the commit.
The main downsides of this format are:
1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC
packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our
Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an
issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the
version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses
that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg`
would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which
should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could
find out, this number would never be exposed to users.
2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as
it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be
long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path
size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what
happens.
The upsides are:
- It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`).
- It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date.
- To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if
they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if
needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the
release date itself is irrelevant here.)
- It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is
immediately obvious.
- It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for
GHC).
Alternatives I considered:
- Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would
be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic
versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort
under GHC.
- Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`.
This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by
npm.
- Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is
what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what
version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This
would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more
than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable.
- No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three
version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that
it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under
semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before
`0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after
`0.13.53`).
- Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the
number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is
currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It
would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still
be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file.
Release notes
=============
> Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases.
Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make
snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it
follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we
decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a
release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release
notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover,
we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants
to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck.
But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon
releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and
include them.
The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of
the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs
asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the
relevant commit.
> Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point.
> It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release
> failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been
> tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were
> part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the
> correct release notes without having to walk down the git history.
>
> However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step,
> after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more
> reliable "stable" releases.
New release process
===================
Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting
changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by
detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will
include both the version string and the corresponding SHA.
Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire
release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main
differences are:
1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit
specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release
step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway.
2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule
that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a
default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head`
behaviour.
Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release.
See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details.
The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a
different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been
built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is
somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does
not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce
identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact
includes its own version number.
I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after
removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of
things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should
look into reducing that over time.
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Originally we ran the release step on both Linux and MacOS to handle
platform dependent artifacts, in particular, damlc.jar. However, we
don’t have any platform dependent artifacts that are uploaded as part
of the release script anymore and I hope we will never have to add any
in the future.
So this PR, removes the code for handling platform dependent artifacts
in the release step and disables the release step on MacOS (while
still setting the variables like we do on Windows).
Currently the release step still costs us ~2 minutes on MacOS which is
already our slowest platform so hopefully this will speed things up a
bit.
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* bazel: 0.28.1 --> 1.1.0
* bazel-watcher sha256
* Fix missing line in patch
* proto_source_root --> strip_import_prefix
See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7153 for details.
* Update rules_nixpkgs
Required to avoid errors of the form
```
ERROR: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'node_nix':
parameter 'sep' may not be specified by name, for call to method split(sep, maxsplit = None) of 'string'
```
and
```
ERROR: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'node_nix':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/var/tmp/_bazel_runner/17d2b3954f1c6dcf5414d5453467df9a/external/io_tweag_rules_nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixpkgs.bzl", line 149
_execute_or_fail(repository_ctx, <3 more arguments>)
File "/private/var/tmp/_bazel_runner/17d2b3954f1c6dcf5414d5453467df9a/external/io_tweag_rules_nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixpkgs.bzl", line 318, in _execute_or_fail
fail(<1 more arguments>)
Cannot build Nix attribute 'nodejs'.
Command: [/Users/runner/.nix-profile/bin/nix-build, /private/var/tmp/_bazel_runner/17d2b3954f1c6dcf5414d5453467df9a/external/node_nix/nix/bazel.nix, "-A", "nodejs", "--out-link", "bazel-support/nix-out-link", "-I", "nixpkgs=/private/var/tmp/_bazel_runner/17d2b3954f1c6dcf5414d5453467df9a/external/nixpkgs/nixpkgs"]
Return code: 1
Error output:
src/main/tools/process-tools.cc:173: "setitimer": Invalid argument
```
* Update rules_scala
* .proto has been removed, use [ProtoInfo] instead
See
https://docs.bazel.build/versions/1.1.0/be/protocol-buffer.html#proto_library
* python3_nix add nix_file attribute
To avoid the following error
```
ERROR: /home/aj/tweag.io/da/da-bazel-1.1/BUILD:66:1: //:nix_python3_runtime depends on @python3_nix//:bin/python in repository @python3_nix which failed to fetch. no such package '@python3_nix//': Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/aj/.cache/bazel/_bazel_aj/5f825ad28f8e070f999ba37395e46ee5/external/io_tweag_rules_nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixpkgs.bzl", line 149
_execute_or_fail(repository_ctx, <3 more arguments>)
File "/home/aj/.cache/bazel/_bazel_aj/5f825ad28f8e070f999ba37395e46ee5/external/io_tweag_rules_nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixpkgs.bzl", line 318, in _execute_or_fail
fail(<1 more arguments>)
Cannot build Nix attribute 'python3'.
Command: [/home/aj/.nix-profile/bin/nix-build, "-E", "import <nixpkgs> { config = {}; overlays = []; }", "-A", "python3", "--out-link", "bazel-support/nix-out-link", "-I", "nixpkgs=/home/aj/.cache/bazel/_bazel_aj/5f825ad28f8e070f999ba37395e46ee5/external/nixpkgs/nixpkgs"]
Return code: 1
Error output:
error: anonymous function at /home/aj/.cache/bazel/_bazel_aj/5f825ad28f8e070f999ba37395e46ee5/external/nixpkgs/nixpkgs.nix:3:1 called with unexpected argument 'config', at (string):1:1
```
* rules_haskell unnamed string.split(_, maxsplit = _)
The keyword argument may no longer be named.
* string.replace(_, _, maxsplit = _) may not be named
* Move proto sources from deps to data
Fixes
```
ERROR: /home/aj/tweag.io/da/da-bazel-1.1/daml-lf/archive/BUILD.bazel:150:1: in deps attribute of scala_test rule //daml-lf/archive:daml_lf_archive_reader_tests_test_suite_src_test_scala_com_digitalasset_daml_lf_archive_DecodeV1Spec.scala: '//daml-lf/archive:daml_lf_1.6_archive_proto_srcs' does not have mandatory providers: 'JavaInfo'. Since this rule was created by the macro 'da_scala_test_suite', the error might have been caused by the macro implementation
```
* Define sha256 for haskell_ghc__paths
Bazel 1.1.0 fails on missing hashes.
* Disable --incompatible_windows_native_test_wrapper
* //compiler/daml-extension don't modify sources
Modifying sources in-place can cause issues on Windows, where build
actions are not sandboxed and changes on sources can affect other build
steps.
* bazel-genfiles --> bazel-bin
The bazel-genfiles symlink has been removed since Bazel 1.0.
See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/8651
* Mark dev_env_tool repository rule as configure
See
https://docs.bazel.build/versions/1.1.0/skylark/lib/globals.html#repository_rule
* Move data deps into data attribute
* Mark dev_env_tool as local = True
* Manually fetch @makensis_dev_env
* Auto-install requested SDK versions.
* Avoid crashing if the requested sdk is missing (and auto-install is off).
* swap the default and the auto install
* Suggestions
* Explain why install messages go to stderr in one case.
* Lint error
* Determin running daml assistant version.
* Auto-update daml whenever assistant SDK version is less than auto-installed version.
* language: new package command for damlc
The (internal) package-new command reads all information from the
daml.yaml file of a DAML project and also creates the .conf file for the
package database and packs it with the dar.
