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Valentin Gagarin
a2fed6db9e
manual: Contributing -> Development, Hacking -> Building (#9014)
* manual: Contributing -> Development, Hacking -> Building

what's currently called "hacking" are really instructions for setting up
a development environment and compiling from source. we have
a contribution guide in the repo (which rightly focuses on GitHub
workflows), and the material in the manual is more about working
on the code itself.

since we'd otherwise have three headings that amount to "Building Nix",
this change also moves the "classic Nix" instructions to the top.

we may want to reorganise this in the future, and bring
contributor-oriented information closer to the code, but for now let's
stick to more accurate names to ease navigation.
2024-07-25 02:53:06 +00:00
John Ericson
469d06f9bc Split out worker protocol template definitions from declarations
This is generally a fine practice: Putting implementations in headers
makes them harder to read and slows compilation. Unfortunately it is
necessary for templates, but we can ameliorate that by putting them in a
separate header. Only files which need to instantiate those templates
will need to include the header with the implementation; the rest can
just include the declaration.

This is now documenting in the contributing guide.

Also, it just happens that these polymorphic serializers are the
protocol agnostic ones. (Worker and serve protocol have the same logic
for these container types.) This means by doing this general template
cleanup, we are also getting a head start on better indicating which
code is protocol-specific and which code is shared between protocols.
2023-06-19 11:45:59 -04:00