When is it hoped (roughly) to have version of SKIE...

# touchlab-tools

[John O'Reilly]

When is it hoped (roughly) to have version of SKIE that works with Kotlin 2.2.20?

[darkmoon_uk]

...also want to know, super keen to start benefiting from the quietly released klib cross-compilation support! Our iOS project is broken into a dozen or more individual library repo's, each with their own CI/CD, so having these runnable on Linux targets will be an instant time/money saver.

[Filip Dolník]

Hi! Sorry for a delayed answer, we were quite busy past few weeks. I'm afraid I don't have good news as it will most likely take at least a few weeks before we add support for 2.2.20. Timing on this release really didn't work in our favor.

We are out for DC Berlin next week so real progress on this will start only after we are back. At the same time, this version is so far looking to be on the more difficult side to support.

[Zac Sweers]

@Filip Dolník out of curiosity, do y’all wait until the final release before starting work?

[Filip Dolník]

We try to get a head start on that, at least for major versions which tend to take the longest to support - depending on our capacity. However, some things cannot be done in advance until the final version is released and we know the full extend of changes.

It's a difficult balance on our end because the sooner we start the less time it takes to release a new version but at the same time the more actual time it requires as the compiler keeps changing and we have to redo stuff. For example, it more or less doesn't make sense for us to do anything during beta releases. The earliest we can start is around RC1, RC2 but even that still involves a lot of extra work as we need to retest everything again with the final version.

In this specific case, the fact that a .20 update was released before a major conference that we attend is not great for us as we loose a week being on the conference + we have to deal with so many other things in the weeks before such a conference.

[aidanvii]

looking forward to 2.2.20 support, we tried migrating context receivers to context parameters when updating from 2.2.10 to 2.2.20, but we encountered an issue https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-77713

[aidanvii]

so will wait patiently, enjoy DC Berlin 🙂