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2008-12-04 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-3/+4
2008-12-04 * Dirty hack to make nix-push work properly on derivations: theEelco Dolstra1-8/+23
derivation should be a source rather than a derivation dependency of the call to the NAR derivation. Otherwise the derivation (and all its dependencies) will be built as a side-effect, which may not even succeed.
2008-12-03 * Pass HashType values instead of strings.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+3
2008-12-03 * Made addToStore() a lot more efficient: it no longer reads the pathEelco Dolstra1-3/+1
being copied 3 times in the worst case. It doesn't run in constant space, but it didn't do that anyway.
2008-12-03 * Unify the treatment of sources copied to the store, and recursiveEelco Dolstra1-22/+26
SHA-256 outputs of fixed-output derivations. I.e. they now produce the same store path: $ nix-store --add x /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x $ nix-store --add-fixed --recursive sha256 x /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x the latter being the same as the path that a derivation derivation { name = "x"; outputHashAlgo = "sha256"; outputHashMode = "recursive"; outputHash = "..."; ... }; produces. This does change the output path for such fixed-output derivations. Fortunately they are quite rare. The most common use is fetchsvn calls with SHA-256 hashes. (There are a handful of those is Nixpkgs, mostly unstable development packages.) * Documented the computation of store paths (in store-api.cc).
2008-11-19 * Primop builtins.storePath for declaring a store path as aEelco Dolstra1-0/+22
dependency. `storePath /nix/store/bla' gives exactly the same result as `toPath /nix/store/bla', except that the former includes /nix/store/bla in the dependency context of the string. Useful in some generated Nix expressions like nix-push, which now finally does the right thing wrt distributed builds. (Previously the path to be packed wasn't an explicit dependency, so it wouldn't be copied to the remote machine.)
2008-08-14 * Refactoring: combine functions that take an attribute set andEelco Dolstra1-5/+3
functions that take a single argument (plain lambdas) into one AST node (Function) that contains a Pattern node describing the arguments. Current patterns are single lazy arguments (VarPat) and matching against an attribute set (AttrsPat). This refactoring allows other kinds of patterns to be added easily, such as Haskell-style @-patterns, or list pattern matching.
2008-07-11 * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,Eelco Dolstra1-137/+55
which is hopefully more useful. * New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-01 * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparisonEelco Dolstra1-14/+49
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops. This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency is a specific needed version or falls in some version range. See tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-01-20 Probably fixed __exprToStringMichael Raskin1-1/+4
2008-01-15 Fixed exportBuildReferenceGraphMichael Raskin1-0/+18
2008-01-04 * New primop `unsafeDiscardStringContext' to get rid of stringEelco Dolstra1-0/+10
contexts. Needed to prevent unnecessary dependencies when building the NixOS manual.
2007-12-31 * More release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2007-11-21 * New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+12
2007-10-31 * Documented multi-user Nix.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2007-10-26 * "trace" primop: write the trace to standard error.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+7
2007-10-09 * listToAttrs: the list now should consist of {name, value} attributeEelco Dolstra1-28/+29
sets instead of {attr, value}. "name" is better than "attr" because the *combination* of the two forms the attribute.
2007-09-18 * Pass various options to the worker so that flags like -K or -j workEelco Dolstra1-2/+1
in multi-user Nix (NIX-72). * Client/worker: exchange a protocol version number for future compatibility.
2007-08-18 primop functions listToAttrs (+test), __isAttrs, __trace addedMarc Weber1-0/+53
new configuration style proposal in lib/default-unstable.nix
2007-05-16 * New builtin function "isFunction". You're not supposed to use itEelco Dolstra1-0/+13
;-) * Channels: fix channels that are plain lists of derivations (like strategoxt-unstable) instead of functions (like nixpkgs-unstable). This fixes the error message "error: the left-hand side of the function call is neither a function nor a primop (built-in operation) but a list".
2007-04-16 * New primop "throw <string>" to throw an error. This is like abort,Eelco Dolstra1-0/+9
only thrown errors are caught by the top-level derivation evaluation in nix-env -qa / -i.
2007-01-29 * computeStorePathForText: take the references into account whenEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
computing the store path (NIX-77). This is an important security property in multi-user Nix stores. Note that this changes the store paths of derivations (since the derivation aterms are added using addTextToStore), but not most outputs (unless they use builtins.toFile).
2007-01-29 * Don't capitalise the primop functions.Eelco Dolstra1-76/+81
2007-01-29 * Organise primops.cc a bit better.Eelco Dolstra1-321/+376
2007-01-29 New primitives:Eelco Dolstra1-1/+43
* `sub' to subtract two numbers. * `stringLength' to get the length of a string. * `substring' to get a substring of a string. These should be enough to allow most string operations to be expressed.
2007-01-29 * filterSource: pass strings to the predicate function instead ofEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
paths. Paths can have unexpected semantics.
2007-01-15 * builtins.filterSource: pass the type of the file ("regular",Eelco Dolstra1-1/+18
"directory", "symlink") as the second argument to the filter predicate.
2007-01-13 * Cleanup.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+5
2006-12-13 * Remove debug message.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+0
2006-12-12 * New primop builtins.filterSource, which can be used to filter filesEelco Dolstra1-0/+38
from a source directory. All files for which a predicate function returns true are copied to the store. Typical example is to leave out the .svn directory: stdenv.mkDerivation { ... src = builtins.filterSource (path: baseNameOf (toString path) != ".svn") ./source-dir; # as opposed to # src = ./source-dir; } This is important because the .svn directory influences the hash in a rather unpredictable and variable way.
2006-12-12 * New built-in function `builtins.attrNames' that returns theEelco Dolstra1-0/+21
names of the attributes in an attribute set.
2006-12-01 * Replace read-only calls to addTextToStore.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+3
2006-11-30 * Put building in the store API.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+1
2006-11-30 * Refactoring. There is now an abstract interface class StoreAPIEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
containing functions that operate on the Nix store. One implementation is LocalStore, which operates on the Nix store directly. The next step, to enable secure multi-user Nix, is to create a different implementation RemoteStore that talks to a privileged daemon process that uses LocalStore to perform the actual operations.
2006-11-03 * Fix importing of derivation outputs.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+9
2006-10-23 * Some better error messages.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+10
2006-10-19 * Better message.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-19 * toFile: maintain the references.Eelco Dolstra1-10/+4
2006-10-17 * baseNameOf: paths don't have to be absolute.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-17 * toPath: should be the identity on paths.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+1
2006-10-17 * dirOf: return a path if the argument is a path.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+6
2006-10-17 * toString: don't copy paths. So toString can be used to passEelco Dolstra1-3/+4
non-store paths to a builder.
2006-10-16 * Big cleanup of the semantics of paths, strings, contexts, stringEelco Dolstra1-233/+75
concatenation and string coercion. This was a big mess (see e.g. NIX-67). Contexts are now folded into strings, so that they don't cause evaluation errors when they're not expected. The semantics of paths has been clarified (see nixexpr-ast.def). toString() and coerceToString() have been merged. Semantic change: paths are now copied to the store when they're in a concatenation (and in most other situations - that's the formalisation of the meaning of a path). So "foo " + ./bla evaluates to "foo /nix/store/hash...-bla", not "foo /path/to/current-dir/bla". This prevents accidental impurities, and is more consistent with the treatment of derivation outputs, e.g., `"foo " + bla' where `bla' is a derivation. (Here `bla' would be replaced by the output path of `bla'.)
2006-10-11 * Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just anotherEelco Dolstra1-2/+1
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-10 * Quick hack to fix NIX-67: evaluation result differing if the NixEelco Dolstra1-9/+8
expression resides in the store.
2006-10-10 * `import': unwrap the context. Necessary to make `import (x + y)'Eelco Dolstra1-13/+14
work, where x is a store path.
2006-10-03 * toXML: propagate the context to allow derivations to be used in theEelco Dolstra1-2/+3
argument.
2006-10-03 * toFile: added an additional argument to specify the store pathEelco Dolstra1-3/+32
suffix, e.g., `builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "..."'. * toFile: handle references to other files correctly.
2006-09-24 * The result of a concatenation with a derivation on the left-handEelco Dolstra1-4/+12
side should be a path, I guess. * Handle paths that are in the store but not direct children of the store directory. * Ugh, hack to prevent double context wrapping.
2006-09-24 * Primop `toPath' to convert a string to a path.Eelco Dolstra1-7/+26
* Primop `pathExists' to check for path existence.