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

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

Change requested

fix: wait on incomplete assignment in REPL by CertainLach · Pull Request #13508 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Assigned to @edolstra

nix-build: can't build drv if callable in selection path · Issue #13674 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Asked question; new CLI may solve this

Directory permissions not always canonicalized · Issue #12786 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

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

Intend to merge

2 Likes

Thanks for merging libstore: always canonicalize directory permissions by philiptaron · Pull Request #13526 · NixOS/nix · GitHub! And thanks to @roberth for the original patch.