2023-11-10 Nix team meeting minutes #102

2023-11-10 Nix team meeting minutes #102

Attendees: @Ericson2314 @edolstra @fricklerhandwerk @roberth @regnat @infinisil
Notes by: @fricklerhandwerk @infinisil

Agenda

  • updates
  • triage
  • discussion

Updates

Triage

Add a tarball of the manual to Hydra build outputs · Issue #9275 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5380

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8699

  • @roberth will review soon
  • currently no tests, but changes only very slowly and doesn’t touch the existing code base
  • low risk to merge as experimental
  • @fricklerhandwerk will try to trade a few hours with @ben to assure minimal maintenance

nix: develop: use SHELL from rc script by bobvanderlinden · Pull Request #8043 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Factor out `StoreDirConfig` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #6236 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Discussion

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9188#issuecomment-1805769616

  • Decision:
    • Support the range of versions from NixOS stable to the latest one
    • @roberth will act as a watchdog to make sure we’re following that rule

Get rid of the `--derivation` flag by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8594 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • no conclusion