Suggestion: move away from Pre-Release to Release

[Totto16]

Since using gir dependencies x.x.x-4.0.0-beta.y we had no new issues / bugs reported.
I also tested them and they seem to be working correct (after fixing some things in #34)

So I suggest updating the version to a non 46.0.0-4.0.0-beta.y one.

If we should call it 46.0.0-beta7 or 46.1.0-beta1 or something similar, is up to you.
I personally prefer incrementing the minor version number (hence 46.1.0) but ultimately I don't care, as long it's visible, that it's not a beta anymore.

Maybe we should wait, that the upstream gir dependencies are out of their 4.0.0-beta too 🤷🏼‍♂️

Anyway, this issue is here, to publicly discuss this.

CC @JumpLink @swsnr

[JumpLink]

I would be fine with it. Since you use the types more than I do atm, you can also judge this better 👍

[swsnr]

I don't care much either way. It's just a number after all 🤷

[Totto16]

Since you all agree, I am going to make a new (non-beta) release after #41 #42 and #43 👍🏼

[JumpLink]

@Totto16 Then we can also write a little release note for This Week in GNOME

[Totto16]

@Totto16 Then we can also write a little release note for This Week in GNOME

That's a good idea, but that's something you have to do, you refactored ts-for-gir + gi.ts in gjsify/ts-for-gir#151 and made the beta types and all this possible 🎉

[Totto16]

Since 46.1.0-beta1 may be confusing it for being gnome 46.1 compatible, I'll name it 46.0.0-beta7

[Totto16]

Close by 733a2d5

[swsnr]

@JumpLink @Totto16 In hindsight, I think this move was premature.

While attempting to upgrade types in one of my GNOME Shell extensions I realized that all @girs dependencies of this package haven't left beta yet, and still suffer from a number of regressions compared to the old 3.3.0 types, notably gjsify/ts-for-gir#171

And with GNOME 47 around the corner I'm beginning to wonder how I'll be able to update types for GNOME 47, given that these types effectively break all my use of async functions.

[Totto16]

@JumpLink @Totto16 In hindsight, I think this move was premature.

While attempting to upgrade types in one of my GNOME Shell extensions I realized that all @girs dependencies of this package haven't left beta yet, and still suffer from a number of regressions compared to the old 3.3.0 types, notably gjsify/ts-for-gir#171

And with GNOME 47 around the corner I'm beginning to wonder how I'll be able to update types for GNOME 47, given that these types effectively break all my use of async functions.

It was justified at the time, at least in my perspective, but you might be right, I'll guess no one can foresee the future 🤷🏼‍♂️

That seems concerning, but I think we will able to fix this. As for async types, I also had a few issue, but since I don't use that many, I casted those things manually in the extension, I encountered those things. That said, async types are a pain in this cases, since their handling in gjs and gnome in general is c like, so that was always hard to do that. Another problem is, that not every function is a promise by default, you may have to use Gio._promisfy see here which changes prototypes and therefore is hard to correctly type in Typescript, if we donÄt now, which version is used 😓 I'll look into this and also try to help if I can, I am sure we find a solution 😉