Nix
UX work
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@thufschmitt, @garbas, @taeer grouped together with @tomberek from https://flox.dev to make the flake-local options more usable.
This led to #5544 and #5546, which together should make the feature useful-enough for most cases.
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@balsoft worked on making Nix follow the XDG base directory spec so that it stops polluting the user’s profiles (#5588 and #146515), hopefully fixing a several-years-old issue (#1079).
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@balsoft also started a reflection on making
--exprmore useful with flakes (#5567). -
@mopleen worked on adding suggestions to
nix-env -i(#5594)
While this is far from complete yet (the suggestion algorithm is very basic and it only covers this one command), this opens the door to some very nice UX improvements
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@thufschmitt and @mopleen worked on making the error messages point to the expected files when using flakes (#5625)
Other
- @balsoft co-organized a small hackhaton for ZHF
- @yannham published the recording of the talks of CONFLANG21 (1st Workshop on Configuration Languages). See the dedicated post for more details.
- @infinisil wrote a nixpkgs PR to add a function to update fields deep inside nested records (#147077)
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@mopleen played with
asanto track some memory issues in the Nix codebase (#5636, #5644) - @taeer fixed a couple of issues in nix-linter
Nickel
- @litchipi started working on making user-defined types possible (#464)
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@yannham added an OCaml-style
|>operator to make it easy to compose operations (#457) - @yannham opened a meta-issue to track all the important design decisions to be made before a first release (#462)
- Avi-D-Coder worked on making the LSP tolerant to parsing errors (#456)
And that’s all, folks