2023-05-05 Nix team meeting minutes #52

[fricklerhandwerk]

Attendees: @roberth @thufschmitt @edolstra @fricklerhandwerk @kranzes @Ericson2314

Agenda

• Hercules CI status
• Triaging
• Discussion

Hercules CI Status

• @thufschmitt: Test everything before merging with merge queue + hercules-ci · Issue #7674 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• @roberth: Blocked on two things

  • Primarily a missing feature because some builds in the flake don’t work by default due to impure distcc (not a requiredFeature)
  • GitHub repo admin needs to enable the integration

Triaging

builtins.toJSON changed floats in 2.12 · Issue #8259 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• to discuss

Update install-systemd-multi-user.sh by ezrasingh · Pull Request #6953 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• merged

Split out `VisibleStore` and `ReferrersStore` from `Store` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8213 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• to discuss

Restore NIX_PATH taking precedence over nix-path by edolstra · Pull Request #7871 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• we should probably deprecate restrict-eval altogether
• postponed

`man nix`/`nix --help` aren't clear enough about the "experimental" status · Issue #8278 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• idea approved

Discussion

nix run should not remove arguments after the first positional one · Issue #6933 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• decision: use everything after the installable parameter as the nested command line, but only for nix run and nix develop