2022-12-19 Nix team meeting minutes #18

[fricklerhandwerk]

Attendees: @thufschmitt @Ericson2314 @fricklerhandwerk @infinisil @edolstra @roberth @tomberek

Review

• restructure attribute listing to `derivation` by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #7320 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • @fricklerhandwerk will fix up discussed issues
  • assigned for merging to @edolstra
• Document "Import From Derivation" by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #7332 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • postponed, waiting for dependencies
• Move the default profiles to the user’s home by thufschmitt · Pull Request #5226 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • @thufschmitt: have to work on it more
  • postponed
• Remove the usage of VLAs in the code by thufschmitt · Pull Request #7348 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • postponed, @thufschmitt will add benchmarks
• Make `./mk/run-test.sh` work by itself; add `mk/debug-test.sh` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #7470 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • decision: merge this and add two follow-ups:
    1. document how to enter and run arbitrary command in the test environment
    2. refactor initialisation of test environment to make it easier to understand
  • assigned to @edolstra to follow up
• `OutputSpec` for `DerivationGoal` and `DerivedPath`, today's `OutputSpec` -> `ExtendedOutputSpec` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #6815 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • discussed the Raw pattern
  • @edolstra provided some context on the distinction of different stores for evaluation, source files and build results (for functions which take store and evalStore)
    • eval and the rest are already split, and only Hydra has a distinct destination store for build results
  • approved, modulo some comments for clarification