Eelco Dolstra

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This does open up access to `path` flakes in the local file system (e.g. by having a flake input `path:/foo/bar`), see `EvalState::checkURI()`.

We already have `CanonPath`, we should probably use that more widely.

Client-side building would be great but is a much bigger project (and probably wouldn't work on platforms like macOS).

Team meeting notes: - Needs more documentation. - Maybe the extra Unix domain socket can be replaced with a new STDERR_* message to have the daemon request auth from the...

Some status updates: * There are now two experimental features: `auth-forwarding` (whether to support forwarding auth from the client to the daemon) and `pluggable-auth` (whether to support credential helpers). *...

Team discussion: * Idea approved. * This needs a release notes entry. * The VM tests should be changed to a functional test since those are much faster. * Are...

I don't think this should be a fatal error, at most it should be a warning. As you say, the derived names are not unique apart from the numerical suffix....

The reason that we're not using WAL / small transactions is that (at least at the time) there was significant overhead to using them while populating the cache, especially for...

@layus Yeah that sounds good. An alternative might be (if possible) to start with a read lock and only upgrade to a write lock if we actually need to make...