Waiting for Nix 2.4

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With some very nice features hitting Nix recently, I’m eagerly awaiting a new release. Most important for me are:

Does anyone know when a 2.4 release can be expected or what I could do to accelerate this happening?

PS. Go donate to the error messages project. It’s such an important improvement for the ecosystem!

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I’m quite confident that Eelco wants to get flakes in, which is blocked on the RFC 49 vote.

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Is there a timeline for RFC 49? It would be unfortunate if the other smaller goodies are blocked for somewhat unrelated reasons. :slight_smile:

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So many months have gone by and still no 2.4 in sight. At this point, it feels like a structural problem that so many features accumulate in a development version for such a long time. I wonder what can be done about it and whether there is a way to help.

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Using calendar-based versioning might help.

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This is the 2.4 milestone.

Maybe if those of us with C++ experience go through the list of bugs and fix some issues, we can help @edolstra cut a release?

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Btw, Nix 2.4rc1 is out! :tada:

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