Fetching packages on CI

[pixlwave]

Since switching to using a remote package, a couple of our workflows have started to fail occasionally with the following error:

⁦Exception when making request `GET https://pkg.pkl-lang.org/github.com/element-hq/pkl-tools/staticcode@1.0.1`:
HTTP connect timed out⁦

They're basically doing brew install pkl && pkl eval -o output.file input.pkl and we've seen it in one project where we import the package directly into a single file and another where we import the package into a project.

Is there anything else we should be doing here? I'm thinking something like passing a flag to ask pkl for x number of retries or if we can cache the downloaded package across runs (I haven't figured out where they live yet).

[pixlwave]

(I haven't figured out where they live yet).

Answering my own question, I found it: ~/.pkl/cache. Will try and cache this and see what happens 🤞

[bioball]

See this post for an approach for vendoring your dependencies:

#534 (comment)

[pixlwave]

Woah, that's neat, thanks for pointing this out @bioball.