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2009-08-03(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-08-03(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-15* nix-build: pass the --show-trace flag.Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-14* Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-10* Leave out the collaborators / revision history page.Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-10(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-02* Replace newlines in table output with spaces.Eelco Dolstra
2009-06-30* Support integers and lists of strings in meta fields. This isEelco Dolstra
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 Dolstra
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 Dolstra
2009-06-18* Attributes names in attrsets can contain dots now.Eelco Dolstra
2009-06-13* Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01Eelco Dolstra
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 Dolstra
(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 Dolstra
2009-05-15* Change the scoping of "inherit (e) ..." in recs so that theEelco Dolstra
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 Dolstra
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 Dolstra
separate traversal after parsing. Likewise, check for duplicate pattern variables right away.
2009-05-12* Allow unsafe (unspecified) comparisons between attrsets unlessEelco Dolstra
NIX_NO_UNSAFE_EQ is set, for now.
2009-05-11* Disallow equality tests between attribute sets. This was alwaysEelco Dolstra
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 Dolstra
2009-05-07* Build a PDF version of the manual in the tarball job (it's notEelco Dolstra
included in the tarball though).
2009-05-07* Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in theEelco Dolstra
bug tracker.
2009-05-07* Produce the manual in the tarball job.Eelco Dolstra
2009-05-07* Remove a right recursion that causes the parser to barf on very longEelco Dolstra
lists. The comment about ATreverse requiring unbounded stack space was unfounded anyway.
2009-05-07* Include the version file.Eelco Dolstra
2009-05-07* Typo.Eelco Dolstra
2009-05-04Add an ftruncate call paired with fallocate to play safe with some FSes ↵Michael Raskin
(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 Dolstra
2009-04-21* Use foreach in a lot of places.Eelco Dolstra
2009-04-21* nix-store --verify: don't bail out if a referenced path is missing.Eelco Dolstra
(It can't fix it though.)
2009-04-16* Fix a few "comparison is always false/true due to limited range ofEelco Dolstra
data type" warnings on 64-bit platforms. The one in parser.y is likely to be a real bug.
2009-04-16* Cleanup.Eelco Dolstra
2009-04-15* Don't cache transient build hook problems.Eelco Dolstra
2009-04-14* Remove references to __XXX primops.Eelco Dolstra
2009-04-14* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2009-04-02* Debian packages: use /etc, not /usr/etc.Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-31* Do a substitution even if --max-jobs == 0.Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-31* Doh!Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-30(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-30* Make the poll interval configurable.Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-29* Update the mtime on the lock file to make it easy to see when a slotEelco Dolstra
was last used.
2009-03-29* Undocument the "system" option. No sane person would use it :-)Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-29* With `--max-jobs 0', print a nicer error message than "AssertionEelco Dolstra
`!awake.empty()' failed."
2009-03-29* Use polling to wait for a remote build slot when using a build hookEelco Dolstra
(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 Dolstra
which is much faster.
2009-03-28* Scan for references and compute the SHA-256 hash of the output inEelco Dolstra
one pass. This halves the amount of I/O.
2009-03-28* Don't use the non-standard __gnu_cxx::stdio_filebuf class.Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-28* Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use fileEelco Dolstra
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-03-28* Clean up the output a bit.Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-28* The `fixedOutput' variable didn't get initialised when using a buildEelco Dolstra
hook, causing negative caching to fail randomly.