2023-06-13 Nixpkgs Architecture Team Meeting #40

[Infinisil]

• Past meeting notes
• Recording
• Matrix announcement
• Recorded and lead by: @infinisil
• Meeting notes by: @roberth
• Attendees: @infinisil @growpotkin @roberth @Ericson2314 @sy @j-k

Notes

RFC 140

• Discussion regarding alternate sharding: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/140#discussion_r1212309795
  • No change necessary
• A lot of discussions regarding the name unit on GitHub and Matrix
  • FCP canceled, new proposal: pkgs/by-name
  • @Ericson2314 +1
  • @growpotkin +0 / +1
  • silence, team agrees
• Implementation of the first part: [RFC 140] Simple package paths, part 1: Introducing the name-based package hierarchy by infinisil · Pull Request #237439 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
  • moves hello
  • works in principle, but needs cleanup and better messages
  • unit needs renaming to by-name
• RFC 140 text
  • @infinisil will remove “standard” from the unit directory section, as it is not really a standard

Packages Modules WG

• @DavHau will present drv-parts on Friday. Will be recorded and linked from the pkgs-modules repo.
• Stream scheduled: @DavHau on drv-parts - YouTube

Time off

• @infinisil probably won’t be there in the next meeting
• @roberth will do the lead and recording instead

Post-meeting

• @infinisil: meetings are short because of working groups
• @Ericson2314: we might start a stdenv working group