Feedback wanted!

[rbuchberger]

With the 2.0 release, it's time for a new feedback thread. I moved the old one to a discussion thread awhile ago, but apparently nobody uses github discussions because it's been pretty dead. I want to hear about any of the following:

• How are you deploying your Jekyll site with JPT installed? If you had to jump through some hoops to get it working with a particular service, would you mind sharing? That way we can make it easier for the next person.
• How are you using JPT? There are no analytics, so I really have no idea how people use this plugin, or which features are the most important. I've created a discussion thread for this purpose.
• How are the docs? Is it easy to find what you're looking for?
• How are the error messages? Did you run into any that are completely unhelpful?
• What are your pain points? How many WTF moments have you had, and what caused them?
• Has JPT made your life easier?

Thanks!

[IanCassTwo]

What happens if I try to use v2 using Ruby 2.5? Debian Stable (v10, Buster) comes with 2.5 and I'd rather not have to install a newer version from source.

[rbuchberger]

It'll break; we started using some new features from 2.6. 2.5 is pretty old, and actually officially went EOL yesterday.

You don't have to build from source yourself; handling different versions of programming languagese is such a common problem that there are several good tools out there to handle it. asdf is the one I use, and can recommend it. rbenv is a ruby-specific alternative.

[IanCassTwo]

Yes but then it effectively bypasses Debian package management system. As a rule, I try to avoid doing that. It only causes problems in future. I'll try to find a Debian friendly way of updating to 2.6.

[ankushg]

I would love to know if anyone's successfully used JPT in Cloudflare Pages!

[rbuchberger]

I just tried a test build, looks like it's similar to netlify. No avif or jp2, but it can handle jpg, png, and webp.

Libvips known savers: csv, mat, v, vips, ppm, pgm, pbm, pfm, hdr, png, jpg, jpeg, jpe, webp, tif, tiff 
Imagemagick known savers: bzlib, cairo, djvu, fftw, fontconfig, freetype, jbig, jng, jpeg, lcms, lqr, ltdl, lzma, openexr, pangocairo, png, rsvg, tiff, wmf, x, xml, zlib
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[holzee]

I am having a problem using JPT with Jekyll-Polyglot. It re-generates all of the images for every build. JPT seems to be not aware of the generated hash. Any clue?

[sbij]

I am having an issue with deploying to Netlify. Do i need something more in my build command than simply jekyll build? I have tried to deploy the JPT deployment tester repo (with just webp and original), and i get this error during Netlify build:

11:30:22 PM:        Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts
11:30:22 PM: Generating new image file: pestka-400-b9ca915fb.webp
11:30:22 PM:   Liquid Exception: No such file or directory - vips in index.markdown
11:30:22 PM:                     ------------------------------------------------
11:30:22 PM:       Jekyll 4.2.0   Please append `--trace` to the `build` command 
11:30:22 PM:                      for any additional information or backtrace. 
11:30:22 PM:                     ------------------------------------------------

I guess it is because it doesn't find vips-tools?

I have tried the build command brew install vips && jekyll build but I get the error 11:52:06 PM: Error: vips: no bottle available!

My build works if i dont use JPT. Am I missing something? Thank you for your plugin!

[rbuchberger]

@sbij Are you running their 2.0.2 build or later? I believe that's when they added vips.

[sbij]

@rbuchberger yes 11:51:22 PM: Using jekyll_picture_tag 2.0.3 from https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag (at master@0b0794b)

[rbuchberger]

I mean the netilfy build - site settings -> deploy -> build image. They've changed it since I last looked though; I believe you want the Ubuntu 20.04 image? Unless they pulled libvips out of it.

[sbij]

I am using Ubuntu Focal 20.04 indeed, other option is Ubuntu Xenial 16.04. I don't mind using either i think.

Sorry i'm not sure where to find the 2.0.2 info (edit: i get this info in my build log: 11:46:30 PM: build-image tag: v4.3.2)

[duffn]

Are you still having issues @sbij? The jpt tester repo builds successfully for me on Netlify with Ubuntu 20.04 and [webp, original] using jekyll_picture_tag 2.0.3.

[sbij]

@duffn i retried on Netlify (i switched to Cloudflare pages at the time, because of this issue) and now i dont have anymore problems, it works well with my repo on github

[andreadellacorte]

Hi @rbuchberger, rather than generating the images locally, could you rely on the https://docs.netlify.com/image-cdn/overview/ ? that's what I've been doing, but I think there may be a workable way to do what you're doing with some SaaS model

[rbuchberger]

Hi @andreadellacorte, thanks for the idea! I'm sorry to say that I flat out don't have the time or energy to build a feature like that. I'll happily accept pull requests, however.

[andreadellacorte]

I think I built it tonight!! Tested it on my website and it works.

It's wonky because I'm not the best at liquid filters parameters (it's a bit of a nightmare, I've found), but I think you'd be able to integrate it easily in your more mature set up.

I can make a gist and show you where I'm at, then we can discuss integrating and prs if you think it worthwhile.

[rbuchberger]

Sounds great! I'd love to see it.

[andreadellacorte]

Sounds great! I'd love to see it.

Emailed.