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title: "Announcing Vieter 0.6.0"
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date: 2023-07-20
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It's been a while since I've released a new version of Vieter. A busy semester
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combined with a lack of interest in the project has definitely slowed down
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development. Nonetheless, I've got a new release ready for you!
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## What's Vieter?
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Vieter consists of two central components: an Arch Linux (well, Pacman
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actually) repository server that supports uploading package archives, combined
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with a build system to populate this server by periodically building select
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packages. The goal of this is to completely remove the need for an AUR helper,
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and moving all build times to the cloud, allowing for smooth updates across as
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many machines as required.
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## What's changed?
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This is a rather small update, and it mostly contains a few quality-of-life
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improvements.
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For one, there's now a Prometheus metrics endpoint so you can integrate Vieter
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into your existing stack. Currently the metrics are limited to API request
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timings, but this could be expanded upon in the future.
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The API can now filter the list of targets, allowing you to more easily search
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for specific targets. This functionality has also been added to the CLI.
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Builds can now be configured with a timeout, with build containers being
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automatically killed if this timeout is reached.
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Behind the scenes, the codebase has been updated to a compiler commit after the
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0.3.3 release, and the cron logic has been rewritten in C using the
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[libvieter](https://git.rustybever.be/vieter-v/libvieter) library. Agents now
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use worker threads, meaning they will not spawn a new thread anymore for each
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new build. Package uploads now properly fail if the TCP connection was closed
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before all bytes of a file were received. Lastly, the deprecated cron daemon
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has been removed.
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### What's next?
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Throughout the last couple of months, I've grown more and more tired of the V
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programming language, and the codebase in general. There's a lot of technical
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debt present, and due to the limitations of the language and existing
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frameworks, I've had to resort to questionable practices for a lot of the
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features (e.g. POST request data as query parameters). Due to this, I've
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decided to restart this project in Rust, under the name
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[rieter](https://git.rustybever.be/Chewing_Bever/rieter). With this, I hope to
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move away from this technical debt, and build a new solid foundation on which I
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can further expand this project. I'm not going to be making any promises on
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when this will be ready to replace Vieter, but I hope to get there soon.
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## Conclusion
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Just picture a very creative ending of this post here ;)
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If you're interested in Vieter, consider joining
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[#vieter:rustybever.be](https://matrix.to/#/#vieter:rustybever.be) on Matrix!
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The source code can be found on my personal
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[Gitea](https://git.rustybever.be/vieter-v/vieter).
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