2024-06-24 Nix team meeting minutes #155

[fricklerhandwerk]

• Project board
• Video conference
• Previous notes

Attendees: @edolstra @fricklerhandwerk @roberth (later: @tomberek, @Ericson2314)

Notes

• NixOS tests still OOM

  • Run the functional tests in a NixOS environment by roberth · Pull Request #10922 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • @roberth: may actually be the evaluation

• Who’s shepherding the Derivation refactoring PR?

  • Derivation untangle by haenoe · Pull Request #10760 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • @Ericson2314 takes a look

• `derivationOf` primop · Issue #10120 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • idea approved

• Accept response from gitlab api with more than one entry in json by pineapplehunter · Pull Request #10943 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • merged

• Replace call to `stat`, `lstat`, and `maybeLstat` with appropriate functions from `std::filesystem` by siddhantk232 · Pull Request #10937 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • @edolstra reviewed

• add instructions to extend the `pkg-config` search path to the "Embedding the Nix Evaluator" c api example by prednaz · Pull Request #10629 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • assigned to @roberth

• libstore: Add the ability to use different auth methods with Http Binary Caches by georgyo · Pull Request #10584 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

No global eval settings in `libnixexpr` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #10913 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• How to set config?
  • bunch of settings setters / builder pattern is a lot of C boilerplate to maintain
  • Can just parse settings from JSON
  • parameters for stores, but generic json otherwise
  • The JSON should be based on the application data model (classes), not based on the nix.conf structure
  • Structured, with the right JSON types, e.g. list for NIX_PATH
  • coercedTo str (split) (listOf str)?