Eelco Dolstra
Eelco Dolstra
@wmertens We're doing triage on the backlog of open RFCs. Are you still interested in pursuing this RFC? BTW, I made a bit of progress towards content-addressable stores: https://github.com/edolstra/nix/commit/a4d0a1162c55614257f944d058c1f6293cb5f459. It...
The next step is to get an RFC shepherd team. @globin I think you said you would open it for nominations?
Note that flakes had a name field but it was removed (80c36d4562af71a90c67b3adb886a1003834890e) because there was no clear use case / semantics. It also raises questions like whether names should be...
This RFC is now open for shepherd nominations!
I nominate myself as a shepherd.
Nominating myself as a shepherd.
So this RFC has the following shepherds: @FRidh, @lheckemann, @edolstra. Thanks!
@FRidh I've filled in the doodle, sorry for not noticing it earlier!
We absolutely should not move computations that can be done in bash (at build time) to Nix (at evaluation time). Evaluation is already very slow and memory-hungry. Code such as...
The only build system rewrite I'm down with is to a Nix-based build ("nix-make"). Anything else seems pretty much a waste of time to me.