2024-07-10 Nix team meeting minutes #160

[roberth]

Triaging

Notes taken in GitHub comments

• Document security concerns for nix.conf settings · Issue #11066 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• Capture all non-interactive child process stderrs · Issue #11040 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• Pre-installed Nix removal instructions miss user's fish · Issue #11038 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• C API: Logging callbacks · Issue #11036 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • good first issue

• add UID migration script for macOS Sequoia 15 by abathur · Pull Request #11075 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • still a draft, no action, but important to keep track of

• Meson functional tests by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #11073 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• No global settings in `libnixfetchers` and `libnixflake` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #11007 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • @Ericson2314: a few extra params is not the prettiest thing to see, but it will get more beautiful with time, until everything snaps togetherLL:q
    • architecturally the end-game would be store, language, and fetchers only interacting via file system accessors and not knowing anything about each other
    • @roberth: stores could become linux-style modules or plugins

Notes

• @Ericson2314: Meson work is currently blocking a proper WASM build and MinGW port
  • prioritising that to finally finish the transition
  • would like to stop having two build systems as quickly as possible
  • removing global configuration is the next step