writeonce/docs/stories/language-runtime-database/15-deps-package-manager.md
shoney.arickathil 1fe808b7a4 docs(stories): add readiness, retire status: refine, sweep all 47 iterations
- `readiness: ready | refine` is a SECOND axis, orthogonal to status.
  `ready` = the brainstorm is complete and the decisions are LOCKED (a spec
  approved, or the forks explicitly confirmed). `refine` = open forks remain
  and it cannot be planned yet
- `status: refine` RETIRED because it carried both meanings at once, so a held
  iteration with an approved spec (language 18, 26) was indistinguishable from
  one nobody had thought about. status is now purely where the WORK is:
  done | in-progress | pending | hold — `pending` was already the board's own
  rendering word, so nothing new was invented
- all 47 iterations classified from EVIDENCE in their own text, not by guess:
  "the four forks are SETTLED" / "spec + plan approved" / "Approved spec:" for
  ready; "Forks the spec must settle" / "no spec exists yet" for refine. Every
  shipped iteration is ready by definition. 19 done, 5 in-progress, 15
  pending, 8 hold; 27 ready, 20 refine
- two iterations moved refine -> in-progress rather than -> pending: language
  31 and 34 are absorbed into 24 and work on them is literally happening, which
  the board already showed as 🔄 while their frontmatter said otherwise. That
  disagreement is now gone
- board legend, board-views' frontmatter contract, and two new Dataview
  queries updated — the useful one being `readiness: ready AND status:
  pending`, the startable set

WHAT THE NEW AXIS IMMEDIATELY SURFACED: of 15 pending iterations, exactly ONE
is startable — databasev2 4, io_uring group-commit, whose forks were confirmed
settled 2026-08-20. Everything else pending needs a brainstorm first. That was
invisible while one key carried both meanings, and it is now on the board.

Also caught by the sweep, unrelated to readiness but found by cross-checking
frontmatter against the board: SIX duplicate rows. Every iteration moved into
databasev2 was still listed in the LANGUAGE pending table under its retired id
(23, 32, 33, 20, 21, 27) as well as its new one. Stale copies removed. And two
databasev2 rows made claims the sweep contradicts — iteration 1 was billed
"startable today" while its forks are open, and 6 still called itself the
ceiling-raiser after 2 took that role.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 16:54:45 +02:00

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iteration status readiness
15 done ready

Iteration 15 — dependencies: wo.toml [deps], git fetch, wo.lock

Format: product/story-iteration-template. Part of Story — one language, one runtime, one database, one binary.

Inserted 2026-08-18. LANDED the same day (branch web-framework): all acceptance criteria met — just deps-accept 8/0 (cold fetch + lock, use and /sub, offline-when-locked with the remote deleted, lock-beats-moved-tag, --update-deps, drift/transitive/collision diagnostics WO-E106/E107, dep fn main never the entry, manifest shape). The enabler for code shared between writeonce repositories — the web framework (iteration 16) is the driving consumer.

Spec exists: 2026-08-18-web-framework-design.md section A is normative for this iteration. Plan: 2026-08-18-deps-package-manager.md (5 tasks: manifest inline-table + [deps]; resolver fetch/cache/lock; multi-root discovery + module mapping + entry restriction; the just deps-accept gate over file:// remotes; docs closeout).

Goals

  • A project declares exact-rev git dependencies in wo.toml [deps] (name = { git = "...", rev = "..." }); woc fetches them (via the git binary — no network code in the compiler) into .wo-deps/<name>/ and resolves use <name> / use <name>/sub into the dep's module tree.
  • wo.lock pins resolved SHAs: builds are reproducible, a moved tag is reported rather than silently followed, and a lock-satisfied build never touches the network.
  • Honest edges: transitive [deps] refused with a diagnostic (flat-only v1), dep/local module-name collisions diagnosed, a dep's fn main ignored, pub applies across the boundary exactly as across modules.

Acceptance Criteria

  • Given an app whose [deps] names a framework in a local file:// git repo, when woc <app> runs twice, then the first run fetches + writes wo.lock, the second builds offline from .wo-deps, and the built binary runs.
  • Given the dep's tag moved after wo.lock was written, when the app builds, then the lock wins and the drift is reported; woc --update-deps refreshes it.
  • Given a dep whose own wo.toml has [deps], or a dep name colliding with a local module, when the app builds, then each is a named diagnostic, never silent misresolution.

Out Of Scope

Registries, version ranges/semver solving, transitive dependencies (the successor's first fork), private-remote auth handling beyond what ambient git config provides, vendoring commands.

Proposed Solution

Manifest parsing extends compiler/bin/main.ml's existing wo.toml reader; fetch = Sys.command over the git binary; resolution plugs the dep root into the existing directory-as-module discovery. Fixtures under tests/ use local file:// remotes so the suite stays network-free.