#💎-mirror

Another place I'd be glad to follow through the Mirror: https://assetstore.unity.com/publishing/release-updates

You mean when someone publishes a new assetstore version or updates on your asset status / queue info?

I mean when Asset Store publisher portal gets an update 😅

I think at this point it becomes "universal web monitoring" (e.g. something like https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2021/04/monitor-web-pages-for-changes-with-web-feeds.html), we'll have to see how much of that we want to "wrap" with Mirror

Yeah, that's totally fair point, and it still can be monitored as RSS with existing third party services like IFTTT, no need to duplicate those, so scratch that!

<@!222536308319322122> here's the Mirror channel 🙂

yeah was just looking around here 😄

about those notifications, been just using RSS feed from github directly to get updates on specific needle packages, like https://github.com/needle-mirror/com.unity.xr.openxr/releases.atom

not sure if that's been mentioned somewhere on the instructions, just found it handy for my own uses

using that for tons of Unity git repos too, as well for tracking some repo's new tags

https://tenor.com/view/surprise-chris-pratt-parks-and-recreation-parks-and-rec-shocked-gif-5571450

That's cool 🙂

Haha I was aware that this exists but for some reason never thought about that this is immediately useful for the mirror repos 😄

yeah it's super handy. I have notifications for the RSS and can cherry-pick the packages I want to track for changes, no need to manually poll anything (or separately register to any RSS service)

So what 0lento actually wanted to post here is this new thing that popped up and that we should Mirror: https://packages.unity.com/com.unity.splines https://forum.unity.com/threads/at-which-point-in-time-will-unity-add-splines.1067309/page-2#post-7614436

sure 😅

Should be added, and mirrored on the next run

I turned it on 😄

https://github.com/needle-mirror/com.unity.splines

here u go

aaand https://twitter.com/Needle_Mirror/status/1460374782952759300

Oh what is this https://packages.unity.com/com.unity.coding

is that a new thing? I remember seeing something like that ages ago somewhere

ah, they have links to github but the repo is private (or deleted) https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.coding

could have been there before

mirror found it

it will be up the next time it runs

Another package not tracked yet, I think: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.search.extensions

I don't think its on the registry, right?

They recently moved it from "some quicksearch dev's GitHub" to the Unity GitHub at least

com.unity.search.extensions

wait, just found about this

https://github.com/needle-mirror/com.unity.selection-groups/blob/master/Documentation%7E/index.md

https://github.com/needle-mirror/com.unity.selection-groups/raw/master/Documentation%7E/images/SelectionGroupMembers.png

it's been out for 1.5 years?

I think it's one of those "we need this but we won't actually commit to maintaining it" things

think it was done by the team that worked on the film utilities etc.

Haha what https://twitter.com/Needle_Mirror/status/1483484864095703045?t=oXvrgMLYZGr7K4jSROFLBw&s=19

New repo listings really popping off

Yeah, someone seems to be forking Go-related repos like crazy...

Look at that: https://github.com/needle-mirror/com.unity.roslyn

Version of Roslyn compiler distributed as package, which enables the use of Roslyn source generators for code generation.

😏

entities has a dependency on it now

this is the commit that added the source gen dependency and probably contains code that shows how to use it: https://github.com/needle-mirror/com.unity.entities/commit/582a9d5644b13986c704578d4fa42e229150b583

It's only 2,746 changed files with 151,794 additions and 58,005 deletions after all 😅

2021-09-17 is freaky

You mean because it took 6 months to bubble through being public? 🙂 Or (more likely?) someone forgot to adjust the Changelog properly

Both 😄

Well it apparently wasnt released until now - looks like all these entities versions took 6 months?

Previous entities version was 0.17.0 and now 0.50.0 🤔 wow

It's awesome having Mirror be so on top of releases, would be stuck trying to refresh the official docs or having to download the package otherwise

Totally 🙂

I'm excited to try source gen at some point, looking forward to have that in Unity

Me too. I've found using them a little temperamental in a non-unity project with Rider, but they open a door for so much

btw (roslyn changelog)

2027? 😄 haha, that's a Freudian timestamp

There's a 9999 in one of the other releases. Someone needs to write a test :P

Sorry for the noise in <#904689193370918913> - there was a credentials issue and Mirror wasn't running for a while. Churning through releases now 🚜

Thanks for setting this up - I had a newtonsoft JSON conflict with another registry, and it was easier to fork and remove the unity's version dependency while I wait for a proper fix 🙌

🙂 nice

hey guys, distracting you from needle engine stuff 😉 i'm not too familiar with automating these things but surely you have some idea what'd be best: i want some kind of hook into when a specific package (com.unity.ide.visualstudio) gets updated. as this specific package sadly has no public repo i set up a fork from your mirror repo and would like to at least be notified of changes. even better would be kicking off some process to try and auto-merge.

Fork Sync

This is the Mirror extension to make multiplayer games?

No they are here: https://discordapp.com/invite/N9QVxbM

This channel is for Needle Mirror, mirroring all Unity packages to GitHub for easier following of changes and doing modifications: https://github.com/needle-mirror

<@519636239658385605> Could you explain to me how you get the information for Needle Mirror? I mean, is there an official Unity packages registry where you can read a json or similar per package?

My use case is to make a kind of "dependabot" for the official Unity packages we have in the project and create PRs automatically.

Thanks.

I think you're looking for this: https://packages.unity.com/com.unity.package-manager.metadata-v2

That's only the searchable packages tho

That being said, some packages are missing from there (e.g. some dependencies are hidden) - I believe the most complete list is actually what we have on the Mirror repo 🙂

Okay, I figured out how:

https://packages.unity.com/package_id

But I have a question, does anyone know how to differentiate between stable and non-stable packages? I was hoping there was some field in the json file but I don't see it.

In the UI of the package manager there are badges like "recommended" and it filters the previews if you don't have checked the checkbox, so somehow they must be able to get that information...

I hope that the way is not a regex on the version field of type ".-pre" or ".-exp"...

But this is just to find out which packages can be completed with the url I put without returning 404, isn't it? From there I don't see that I can get much more out of it.

You get all available versions of these packages and which Unity version they're available for - what are you looking for?

What I have already explained.

Imagine that I have a project with N packages of which I want to recurrently check if there is a new version automatically and update it through a PR in github.

To do this I need to know for each package the URL where it lists the available versions and get the latest stable version compatible with my version of Unity.

With: https://packages.unity.com/package_id I can get everything I want except easily differentiate when a package version is stable or experimental...

What I ask is that, if someone knows a reliable way to differentiate this without regexing the "version" field.

Right now if I do it manually with the package manager UI is very little usable because since 2021.x they have removed the power to list the version history and hide the versions and you only see the one they want and mark as "recommended". It is difficult to find the rest of the versions without going to the changelog page of each package and see which is the latest version.

The packages follow SemVer, so the version field is that information

There's a specific lifecycle that Unity's packages follow, with -exp, -pre, -rc and release versions

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-lifecycle.html

Which version is considered "stable" is different for each Unity release; there's a file inside each Editor installation that contains information for which version of which specific package is "Verified" for that release; not each package has that, only some main ones

So stability of packages depends not only on the version in the manifest but also on which Unity Editor release you're asking the question for.

Well, "verified" is relative and coming from Unity I don't trust much either haha.

Ok so I see that then I have to do a regex to verify the suffixes of "-exp" and "-pre", etc... This way I can get the latest "stable" version.

As said above, also depends on which Editor version you're asking the question for.

We did have a machine run for a while that did nothing else but download all Unity releases and parse that information, but decided that it's not worth the effort for a very limited audience 🙂

I presume <#904689193370918913> is down? I feel like there's been a few missing notable package updates and releases

(DOTS updates and com.unity.rendering.light-transport)

Oh that's strange, our internal log still happily churns through packages every hour or so. <@272528485732450305> do you think you could take a look?

Ah interesting. Just the post to the public discord? Strange. Mirror on github+twitter seems to be fine and internal discord also runs

I'll check

Seems it's back for now. Tbh we're not entirely sure what happened 🤷‍♂️

The <#904689193370918913> channel can now be followed on your own servers 📣

and here's our 🐘 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@needlemirror

And if you want to handle releases yourself ping me - we can now send release events/info to custom endpoints 🙂

hey there, idk if im in the correct place to ask, but i cant seem to find any specific channel or anything but

im using needle to create some lightmaps and well

in the object it looks completely fine the UV, but if i go to UV editing, the UV map is completely wrong

have i done something wrong?

<#1024686103598477383>

lmao im so damn blind sorry