Platform Support

[chillsauce]

As an EOS developer, I need to run Mandel on my development platform of choice so I can test my software.

Background

While native Mac support is being dropped, D.U.N.E. is a new full blown dev environment developed by ENF that should make the developer experience better on both Mac and Windows.

Tasks

• Decide what platforms we need to support
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Ubuntu 22.04
• Conduct survey to gauge developer platform support requirements #71
• Documentation, docker image and Debian packages available for running on Mac and Windows @larryk85 @tedcahalleos
• Confirm the pinned compiler for 3.0 will work for Mandel, or recommend upgrade to alternative version @cc32d9

Background

Todd currently has CI/CD system testing only Ubuntu 20.04 for Mandel 3.0. No testing currently for Mac.

The list for available builds for 2.0.13:

• Redhat 7
• Mac 10.14
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 18.04

[chillsauce]

Pomelo to survey to grant participants to gauge pain of dropping Mac support.

[chillsauce]

Consider a survey targeted to smart contract developers. Send to EOS Support dApp developer contacts, and possibly Pomelo grant participants too.

[chillsauce]

What's your development platform?

• Mac
• linux
• windows

What's your development environment?

• Web IDE
• Docker
• Purely native
• Cloud VM
• WSL (linux native on Windows)

question regarding moving from purely native to docker

[chillsauce]

It's now a full blown dev environment, also supports Web IDE: https://github.com/eosnetworkfoundation/DUNE

[chillsauce]

• 33 EOS developers responded to the platform support survey
  • 17 of those respondents selected "purely native" as their preferred development environment
  • 1 of the respondents who prefer a native development environment said that a well documented docker image would not be an acceptable alternative for the Mac, with the following reason: Docker too slow and created a lot of trash on local machine. Also running native unit tests and each time rebuild docker image is worst dev experience.
  • 12 of the respondents who prefer native development environment said that a docker image would meet their needs and 2 said maybe.
  • We will share D.U.N.E. with respondents and ask for feedback on the experience.
  • 

[chillsauce]

Native unit testing not currently supported in D.U.N.E.

[chillsauce]

• Full D.U.N.E. 1.0 release, including eosio::tester and support for RC2 will be released Friday
• We've received additional feedback on D.U.N.E. from respondents of the EOS Support survey:
  DUNE_Feedback.pdf
  • Survey indicates there's an opportunity to improve awareness and correct misconceptions with a D.U.N.E. marketing push targeted to smart contract developers

[chillsauce]

• D.U.N.E. will be released this Friday (was originally planned for last Friday)
• We received some more feedback from someone testing D.U.N.E. on Mac
• An other developer states that it is not possible to confirm whether there are remote containers. It will be great if there is support for remote container. James Mart has a video on this: Writing modern EOS smart contracts. The Fractally team supports remote container per the respondent.

[chillsauce]

• D.U.N.E. release did not make it out last Friday, targeting this Friday

[chillsauce]

• D.U.N.E. RC1 released on Friday
• Looking for community feedback

[etranger05]

There are 2 issues I have found when I tested D.U.N.E RC1 on M1 Mac

One is default wallet location issue when you create an account.
It was reported before RC1 release, but I could reproduce it in RC1. Seems not to be fixed.
eosnetworkfoundation/DUNE#15
It contains a workaround that I found.

The other is container-host mounting path problem. (not reported by me but I could have reproduce it.)
It causes Internal Error when you create CMake smart contract project.
eosnetworkfoundation/DUNE#21
I have added a workaround for this issue as a comment.
eosnetworkfoundation/DUNE#21 (comment)

If you find somebody is experiencing these issues, let them know the workarounds I added. It may work.

I may skip or a bit late for the meeting this week but after I join the meeting I would be able to explain about it if you want to know the details.

junhank - NodeONE

[chillsauce]

DUNE 1.0 RC2 will be coming on Thursday with fixes for Windows 10 issues

ENF is requesting a survey for chainbase utilization and will provide more context.

• https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#eosnetworkfoundation/mandel-chainbase
• https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#eosio/chainbase

[chillsauce]

• DUNE 1.0 RC2 was released on August 18: https://github.com/AntelopeIO/DUNE/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc2
• We're expecting RC3 in the next week or so.