2023-08-04 Nix team meeting minutes #77

Triage

Document each store implementation on its own page by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8781 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8781#issuecomment-1666133053

Stack trace improvements by roberth · Pull Request #8623 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

To review, assigned to Eelco

Don't require .tar/.zip extension for tarball flakerefs by edolstra · Pull Request #8769 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

To review, assigned to @cole-h

Add a way to recursively GC paths by balsoft · Pull Request #8417 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Dropped until ready

Redirect some Nix commands output to a pager by thufschmitt · Pull Request #4972 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Assigned to Eelco for review

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5497

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5497#issuecomment-1666160069

Flakes: Add "" as the first prefix to try by L-as · Pull Request #5657 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5657#issuecomment-1666169619

Flakes: Do not ignore lock files of intermediate nodes by ztzg · Pull Request #6326 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6326#issuecomment-1666167794

Allow "self" in flake input paths by alexshpilkin · Pull Request #6535 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6535#issuecomment-1666158780

Don't ignore unstaged files in local flakes by SuperSandro2000 · Pull Request #6858 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6858#issuecomment-1666156844

install-multi-user: ignore profile_target backups that have no change by miallo · Pull Request #7593 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7593#issuecomment-1666155660

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8595

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8595#issuecomment-1666153849

prim_functionArgs: More info about default values. by shlevy · Pull Request #90 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Interesting idea, but also pretty involved. Won’t pursue this unless there’s a strong use-case coming-up