# 2025-08-06 Nix team meeting minutes #239,#240

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-08-06-nix-team-meeting-minutes-239-240/67694
**Category:** Nix
**Created:** [August 6, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-08-06-nix-team-meeting-minutes-239-240/67694 "2025-08-06T20:14:51Z")
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### Author: ![roberth](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/roberth/32/5488_2.png) [@roberth](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/roberth)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-08-06-nix-team-meeting-minutes-239-240/67694/1 "2025-08-06T20:14:51Z")

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# 2025-08-06 Nix team meeting minutes #240

_Wednesday triaging meeting_

Attendees: @edolstra @roberth @xokdvium @Mic92 @fzakaria

## Triage

### [Add new primop `builtins.fromJSONC` which automatically strips comments from JSON by fzakaria · Pull Request #13550 · NixOS/nix · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13550)

Change requested

### [fix: wait on incomplete assignment in REPL by CertainLach · Pull Request #13508 · NixOS/nix · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13508)

Assigned to @edolstra

### [nix-build: can't build drv if callable in selection path · Issue #13674 · NixOS/nix · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13674)

Asked question; new CLI may solve this

### [Directory permissions not always canonicalized · Issue #12786 · NixOS/nix · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/12786)

Assigned to @tomberek

# 2025-08-04 Nix team meeting minutes #239

_Monday hacking session_

## Discussion

### Installer stance

- @Mic92: installer team wants to know our stance
- @roberth: first add experimental URL, then if it works (not too many reports) make it the default

### [libutil: Use Boost.URL for URI parsing by xokdvium · Pull Request #13445 · NixOS/nix · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13445)

Intend to merge

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### Author: ![PhilipTaron](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/philiptaron/32/35913_2.png) [@PhilipTaron](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/PhilipTaron)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-08-06-nix-team-meeting-minutes-239-240/67694/2 "2025-08-06T22:27:38Z")

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Thanks for merging [libstore: always canonicalize directory permissions by philiptaron · Pull Request #13526 · NixOS/nix · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13526)! And thanks to @roberth for the original patch.