Incorrectly high expectations lead to frustration for users who
stick around to experience how useless it is for e.g. a devShell
https://functional.cafe/@arianvp/112976284363120036:
> Flakes doesn't have eval caching. It has command line argument
> caching. It literally just stores the cli argument you passed
> in a sqlite database and yes that's as useless as it sounds
> When I discovered flakes had no expression level caching whatsoever
> I kind of felt lied to and betrayed.
This ensures just `nix build`-ing the flake doesn't forget to run all
tests. One can still specifiy specific attributes to just build one
thing.
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Now that we can run all tests with Meson, we want developers making code
changes to use it.
(Only the manual needs to be built with the build system, and that will
change shortly.)
This reverts commit b0bc2a97bf.
As discussed in our meeting, we should use a simplified version for the
libraries without the date or commit hash. This will make rebuilding a
lot faster in many cases.
Progress on #10379
Co-Authored-By: Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>
* add cross-references to `nix-path` overriding
while this information is already present in the settings, it's more
likely to be first accessed through the "lookup path" page, which
currently requires following two links to get to the practically
important bits.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
This is because with the split packages of the Meson build, we simply
have no idea what directory the binaries will be installed in when we
build the library.
In the process of doing so, consolidate and make more sophisticated the
logic to cope with a few corner cases (e.g. `NIX_BIN_DIR` exists, but no
binaries are inside it).
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
This ended up motivating a good deal of other infra improvements in
order to get Windows right:
- `OsString` to complement `std::filesystem::path`
- env var code for working with the underlying `OsString`s
- Rename `PATHNG_LITERAL` to `OS_STR`
- `NativePathTrait` renamed to `OsPathTrait`, given a character template
parameter until #9205 is complete.
Split `tests.cc` matching split of `util.{cc,hh}` last year.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
The test split matches PR #8920, so the utility files and tests files
are once again to 1-1. The string changes continues what was started in
PR #11093.
In the FFI world we have many tools that are not gcc/clang and therefore
not always support the latest C standard. This fixes support with cffi
i.e. used in https://github.com/tweag/python-nix
It was failing with:
error: AWS error fetching 'nix-cache-info': The specified bucket does not exist
because `S3BinaryCacheStoreImpl` had a `bucketName` field that
shadowed the inherited `bucketName from `S3BinaryCacheStoreConfig`.
