2024-06-12 Nix team meeting minutes #152

[fricklerhandwerk]

• Project board
• Video conference
• Previous notes

Attendees: @roberth @edolstra @tomberek @fricklerhandwerk @djacu (later: @Ericson2314)
Notes: @fricklerhandwerk

Triaging

• Fixed output derivation produces incorrect nix store path. · Issue #7150 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • closed, works now (@edolstra)
• Weird behaviour with NUL code points in strings · Issue #10317 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • confirmed, this needs to be addressed
• Cleanup `ContentAddressMethod` to match docs by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #10745 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • @roberth will merge
• Installables with empty outputsToInstall are installed, and do not use default output · Issue #10830 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
• nix3-build should release memory acquired for evaluation before building the derivation · Issue #10862 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • discussed Evaluator GC: unmap more memory by roberth · Pull Request #10879 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
    • idea approved