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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra
186571965d
Don't show flags from config settings in "nix --help" 2017-06-07 18:41:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa952d5f0b
nix: Add --help-config flag 2017-06-07 16:49:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b8283773bd
nix: Make all options available as flags
Thus, instead of ‘--option <name> <value>’, you can write ‘--<name>
<value>’. So

  --option http-connections 100

becomes

  --http-connections 100

Apart from brevity, the difference is that it's not an error to set a
non-existent option via --option, but unrecognized arguments are
fatal.

Boolean options have special treatment: they're mapped to the
argument-less flags ‘--<name>’ and ‘--no-<name>’. E.g.

  --option auto-optimise-store false

becomes

  --no-auto-optimise-store
2017-06-07 16:17:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
72fb2a7edc
Fix build on gcc 4.9
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/52408843
2017-05-03 16:08:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efa4bdbfcd
Improve nix show-config --json
In particular, show descriptions. This could be used for manpage
generation etc.
2017-04-20 17:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4410e9d995
Setting: Remove "Tag" template argument 2017-04-20 16:52:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f05d5f89ff
Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.conf 2017-04-20 14:58:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ba9ad29fdb
Convert Settings to the new config system
This makes all config options self-documenting.

Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a
warning.
2017-04-13 20:53:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2040240e23
Add a Config class to simplify adding configuration settings
The typical use is to inherit Config and add Setting<T> members:

  class MyClass : private Config
  {
    Setting<int> foo{this, 123, "foo", "the number of foos to use"};
    Setting<std::string> bar{this, "blabla", "bar", "the name of the bar"};

    MyClass() : Config(readConfigFile("/etc/my-app.conf"))
    {
      std::cout << foo << "\n"; // will print 123 unless overriden
    }
  };

Currently, this is used by Store and its subclasses for store
parameters. You now get a warning if you specify a non-existant store
parameter in a store URI.
2017-04-13 16:03:31 +02:00