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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-08-06T16·05+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-08-06T16·05+0000
commit1ecc97b6bdb27e56d832ca48cdafd3dbb5185a04 (patch)
tree4de27ee42f04bb50766f33a58d830677bd8fa80b /doc/manual
parent54945a2950174ded83d58336061b4a9990cdbbfd (diff)
* Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
  brackets, e.g.

    import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>

  are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
  the search path.  This allows us to get rid of hacks like

    import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib"

  The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag
  and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable,
  e.g.,

    $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ...

  If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is
  lazily thrown.

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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
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+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
     <para>TODO: “or” keyword.</para>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+    <para>TODO: Nix expression search path (<literal>import &lt;foo/bar.nix></literal>).</para>
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </section>