2025-09-17 Nix team meeting minutes #248

In the meanwhile, we’ve had some triage meetings whose outcomes were posted on the issues/prs, as well as some hacking sessions without notes.

2025-09-17 Nix team meeting minutes #248

Wednesday triage meeting

Attendees: @edolstra @xokdvium @roberth @Ericson2314

Triage

Use `MemorySourceAccessor` in `DummyStore` so writes work by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #10915 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Merged

Multiple `--apply` flags · Issue #13898 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Idea approved

Feature Request: `--apply` option for `nix build` command · Issue #11698 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Discussed

[F.Rq.] Option to apply stricter scoping rules during eval · Issue #13214 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Closed as not planned

Add a warning infrastructure · Issue #10281 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Idea approved

`builtin:write-file` · Issue #14011 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Opened and discussed

Stack traces for warnings

@Mic92: In Nixpkgs we have trouble getting locations for warnings
@xokdvium: A consequence of our error handling architecture
@roberth: Piggy-back on the debugger mechanism? That does track the stack without having to unwind. Should be a new flag that enables the debugger mechanism but not necessarily the debugger.

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