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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-10-11T21·59+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-10-11T21·59+0000 |
| commit | 7d4567f2cc16959e827f542e6de76a28ff11789e (patch) | |
| tree | fc68581e60d9f29359173ce8b5398d36b9ee125c /doc | |
| parent | b4e012ab4d8ef2f9091c1e8d14e059b38a2e4529 (diff) | |
* Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just another
kind of notation for strings.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml index e8d84164e3df..b8d097ae2286 100644 --- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml +++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml @@ -649,16 +649,20 @@ configureFlags = " some of which in turn contain expressions (e.g., <literal>${mesa}</literal>).</para> + <para>As a convenience, <emphasis>URIs</emphasis> as defined in + appendix B of <link + xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC 2396</link> + can be written <emphasis>as is</emphasis>, without quotes. For + instance, the string + <literal>"https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2"</literal> + can also be written as + <literal>https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2</literal>.</para> + </listitem> <listitem><para><emphasis>Integers</emphasis>, e.g., <literal>123</literal>.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para><emphasis>URIs</emphasis> as defined in appendix B - of <link xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC - 2396</link>, e.g., - <literal>https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2</literal>.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para><emphasis>Paths</emphasis>, e.g., <filename>/bin/sh</filename> or <filename>./builder.sh</filename>. A path must contain at least one slash to be recognised as such; for |