this also adds a hint to contributors about making far-reaching changes,
complementing the recent update to the maintainers' handbook on how to
deal with those.
GitHub now displays a banner and has a dedicated page[1] for good first
issues, but that uses a different label name as we had in place.
I renamed the label on GitHub, this is updating the link.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/contribute
linking to the discourse category will by default show a view sorted by
most recent post, which makes it hard to find particular meeting notes.
this also adds a procedural detail about the notes, to make that more
explicit and less dependent on being present in the meetings.
hashBase is ambiguous, since it's not about the digital bases, but about
the format of hashes. Base16, Base32 and Base64 are all character maps
for binary encoding.
Rename the enum Base to HashFormat.
Rename variables of type HashFormat from [hash]Base to hashFormat,
including CmdHashBase::hashFormat and CmdToBase::hashFormat.
MemoryInputAccessor is an in-memory virtual filesystem that returns
files like <nix/fetchurl.nix>. This removes the need for special hacks
to handle those files.
This will allow us to factor out logic, which is currently scattered
inline, into several reusable instances
The tests are also updated to support versioning. Currently all Worker
and Serve protocol tests are using the minimum version, since no
version-specific serialisers have been created yet. But in subsequent
commits when that changes, we will test individual versions to ensure
complete coverage.
- Remove some stray saved error messages that didn't correspond to any
test, because they were renamed in
d11faa01b5.
- Need `--eval` in test failure test in order to get in "read-only" mode
where we don't try to write to the store. (The other tests already do
this.)
- Need `--strict` so top-level attribute sets are still forced, like
they are without `--eval`.
Progress breaking up `flake.nix` by introducing separate `default.nix`
files which make sense on their own. (This one is a regular
`callPackage`-able package.)
