2023-11-10 Nix team meeting minutes #102
Attendees: @Ericson2314 @edolstra @fricklerhandwerk @roberth @thufschmitt @infinisil
Notes by: @fricklerhandwerk @infinisil
Agenda
- updates
- triage
- discussion
Updates
- Nixpkgs stable was bumped to 2.18
-
Nix 2.3.17 was released. which includes the
zstdbackport
Triage
Add a tarball of the manual to Hydra build outputs · Issue #9275 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- @edolstra not sure we should rely on Hydra build outputs
- @thufschmitt and @roberth will help out to make a PR to discuss
Allow gc-ing with a rootless daemon by thufschmitt · Pull Request #5380 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- @thufschmitt requests @edolstra’s opinion on the tracing logic
- to review
(Towards) stable C bindings for libutil, libexpr by yorickvP · Pull Request #8699 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- @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
- assigned to @edolstra
Factor out `StoreDirConfig` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #6236 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- assigned to @thufschmitt
Discussion
Remove impractical statement about backports by edolstra · Pull Request #9188 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- 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