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2009-09-15 * Two primops: builtins.intersectAttrs and builtins.functionArgs.Eelco Dolstra3-0/+161
intersectAttrs returns the (right-biased) intersection between two attribute sets, e.g. every attribute from the second set that also exists in the first. functionArgs returns the set of attributes expected by a function. The main goal of these is to allow the elimination of most of all-packages.nix. Most package instantiations in all-packages.nix have this form: foo = import ./foo.nix { inherit a b c; }; With intersectAttrs and functionArgs, this can be written as: foo = callPackage (import ./foo.nix) { }; where callPackage = f: args: f ((builtins.intersectAttrs (builtins.functionArgs f) pkgs) // args); I.e., foo.nix is called with all attributes from "pkgs" that it actually needs (e.g., pkgs.a, pkgs.b and pkgs.c). (callPackage can do any other generic package-level stuff we might want, such as applying makeOverridable.) Of course, the automatically supplied arguments can be overriden if needed, e.g. foo = callPackage (import ./foo.nix) { c = c_version_2; }; but for the vast majority of packages, this won't be needed. The advantages are to reduce the amount of typing needed to add a dependency (from three sites to two), and to reduce the number of trivial commits to all-packages.nix. For the former, there have been two previous attempts: - Use "args: with args;" in the package's function definition. This however obscures the actual expected arguments of a function, which is very bad. - Use "{ arg1, arg2, ... }:" in the package's function definition (i.e. use the ellipis "..." to allow arbitrary additional arguments), and then call the function with all of "pkgs" as an argument. But this inhibits error detection if you call it with an misspelled (or obsolete) argument.
2009-08-25 Adding tryEval builtin. It allows to catch presence of errors in an expression.Michael Raskin1-0/+18
2009-08-03 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+12
2009-08-03 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2009-07-15 * nix-build: pass the --show-trace flag.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2009-07-14 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.Eelco Dolstra16-68/+44
2009-07-10 * Leave out the collaborators / revision history page.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+5
2009-07-10 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-07-02 * Replace newlines in table output with spaces.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+7
2009-06-30 * Support integers and lists of strings in meta fields. This isEelco Dolstra3-41/+106
useful for fields like meta.maintainers, meta.priority (which can be a proper integer now) and even meta.license (if there are multiple licenses).
2009-06-30 * Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).Eelco Dolstra6-3/+21
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and generally aren't very useful. Ideally the builtins.throw messages should be self-contained.
2009-06-18 * Highlight URLs containing "=" properly.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2009-06-18 * Attributes names in attrsets can contain dots now.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-06-13 * Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01Eelco Dolstra3-4/+4
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file, so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008 fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be patched because it's closed source. This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar warnings.
2009-06-10 * nix-build: if nix-instantiate or nix-store fails due to a signalEelco Dolstra1-2/+8
(e.g. out of memory or a segfault), print an error message. Otherwise the user doesn't see anything.
2009-05-26 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+27
2009-05-15 * Change the scoping of "inherit (e) ..." in recs so that theEelco Dolstra3-2/+10
attributes of the rec are in scope of `e'. This is useful in expressions such as rec { lib = import ./lib; inherit (lib) concatStrings; } It does change the semantics of expressions such as let x = {y = 1;}; in rec { x = {y = 2;}; inherit (x) y; }.y This now returns 2 instead of 1. However, no code in Nixpkgs or NixOS seems to rely on the old behaviour.
2009-05-15 * Some syntactic sugar for attribute sets: allow {x.y.z = ...;} as aEelco Dolstra9-26/+118
shorthand for {x = {y = {z = ...;};};}. This is especially useful for NixOS configuration files, e.g. { services = { sshd = { enable = true; port = 2022; }; }; } can now be written as { services.sshd.enable = true; services.sshd.port = 2022; } However, it is currently not permitted to write { services.sshd = {enable = true;}; services.sshd.port = 2022; } as this is considered a duplicate definition of `services.sshd'.
2009-05-14 * Check for duplicate attributes in fixAttrs, rather than doing aEelco Dolstra1-94/+63
separate traversal after parsing. Likewise, check for duplicate pattern variables right away.
2009-05-12 * Allow unsafe (unspecified) comparisons between attrsets unlessEelco Dolstra2-1/+9
NIX_NO_UNSAFE_EQ is set, for now.
2009-05-11 * Disallow equality tests between attribute sets. This was alwaysEelco Dolstra1-6/+42
broken, but now the evaluator checks for it to prevent Nix expressions from relying on undefined behaviour. Equality tests are implemented using a shallow pointer equality test between ATerms. However, because attribute sets are lazy and contain position information, this can give false positives. For instance, previously let y = {x = 1;}; in y == y evaluated to true, while the equivalent expression {x = 1;} == {x = 1;} evaluated to false. So disallow these tests for now. (Eventually we may want to implement deep equality tests for attribute sets, like lib.eqStrict.) * Idem: disallow comparisons between functions. * Implemented deep comparisons of lists. This had the same problem as attribute sets - the elements in the list weren't evaluated. For instance, ["xy"] == [("x" + "y")] evaluated to false. Now it works properly.
2009-05-07 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2009-05-07 * Build a PDF version of the manual in the tarball job (it's notEelco Dolstra1-1/+5
included in the tarball though).
2009-05-07 * Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in theEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
bug tracker.
2009-05-07 * Produce the manual in the tarball job.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+6
2009-05-07 * Remove a right recursion that causes the parser to barf on very longEelco Dolstra1-6/+3
lists. The comment about ATreverse requiring unbounded stack space was unfounded anyway.
2009-05-07 * Include the version file.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-05-07 * Typo.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-05-04 Add an ftruncate call paired with fallocate to play safe with some FSes ↵Michael Raskin2-0/+9
(namely, BtrFS fallocate sets file size to allocated size, i.e. multiple of block size)
2009-04-21 * Machines of type x86_64-linux can do i686-linux builds.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+3
2009-04-21 * Use foreach in a lot of places.Eelco Dolstra10-96/+59
2009-04-21 * nix-store --verify: don't bail out if a referenced path is missing.Eelco Dolstra1-14/+13
(It can't fix it though.)
2009-04-16 * Fix a few "comparison is always false/true due to limited range ofEelco Dolstra3-5/+5
data type" warnings on 64-bit platforms. The one in parser.y is likely to be a real bug.
2009-04-16 * Cleanup.Eelco Dolstra1-15/+6
2009-04-15 * Don't cache transient build hook problems.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+11
2009-04-14 * Remove references to __XXX primops.Eelco Dolstra2-14/+4
2009-04-14 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+60
2009-04-02 * Debian packages: use /etc, not /usr/etc.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2009-03-31 * Do a substitution even if --max-jobs == 0.Eelco Dolstra2-18/+23
2009-03-31 * Doh!Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-03-30 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2009-03-30 * Make the poll interval configurable.Eelco Dolstra2-3/+3
2009-03-29 * Update the mtime on the lock file to make it easy to see when a slotEelco Dolstra1-4/+8
was last used.
2009-03-29 * Undocument the "system" option. No sane person would use it :-)Eelco Dolstra1-20/+0
2009-03-29 * With `--max-jobs 0', print a nicer error message than "AssertionEelco Dolstra1-1/+5
`!awake.empty()' failed."
2009-03-29 * Use polling to wait for a remote build slot when using a build hookEelco Dolstra2-36/+3
(that is, call the build hook with a certain interval until it accepts the build). * build-remote.pl was totally broken: for all system types other than the local system type, it would send all builds to the *first* machine of the appropriate type.
2009-03-28 * nix-copy-closure: compute the closure in one call to nix-store,Eelco Dolstra2-26/+10
which is much faster.
2009-03-28 * Scan for references and compute the SHA-256 hash of the output inEelco Dolstra3-89/+50
one pass. This halves the amount of I/O.
2009-03-28 * Don't use the non-standard __gnu_cxx::stdio_filebuf class.Eelco Dolstra2-33/+17
2009-03-28 * Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use fileEelco Dolstra6-117/+68
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).