Valentin Gagarin
34ea74c9ec
reword introductory section
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there should be a meta section for each chapter to give motivation of
the presented structure. the structure itself is visible from the table
of contents.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b387d80943
remove sentence for chapter transition
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idea: sections could be read in different orders by linking them in
different ways (e.g. depth-first or breadth-first). adding hard-coded
transitions makes that confusing.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
89a7c956ff
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
51e6bed25e
do not mention implementation details
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
23ee0b24f7
correctly use comma for nesting
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
804e8bd747
indicate sequence with "then"
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
327ccd3b07
only use generic build system terminology
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we will use a translation table to introduce nix-specific terms
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0eae4bfad1
reword overview with clear terminology
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trying to capture alternative terms in one go here, mirroring everyday
use:
derivation - build plan
realise - execute build
there will be more of that sort.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
0737094161
Add draft "Rosetta stone" by @fricklerhandwerk and stub commentary
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The idea and most of the execution are @fricklerhandwerk's. I changed a
few things best I could based on @edolstra's corrections, and a Bazel
glossary.
Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
c86c1ec7e3
Make refernces sneak preview more concise
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e4bbd9e83
Improve store objects session more
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e4eea5e84e
Include abstract syntax based on the thesis for FSOs
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See https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf , page 91.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b98dc3b19c
store objects, better opining sentances
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
55b437b551
Improve store path section
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b4df351880
Relocability -> relocation in store object title
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
5f4d2ac091
Improve store object section
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In particular, Nix is *not* like Git, so that needs to be fixed.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
1bbad62c7d
doc: File system data -> file system object, to match Nix
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
838ba26fda
Rename files after store entry -> store object rename
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e2d5ae202
doc: Store entry -> store object
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This matches the terminology in Eelco's thesis.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e308602fdf
Update doc/manual/src/design/store/drvs/drvs.md
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Co-authored-by: Matthieu Coudron <teto@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
cdb0bf3b65
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
75c5191a1f
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a04340f9a1
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
f5386d7059
Fix stub file's name
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
678d75baea
Start on the derivations section
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e3a0209a9e
Move the bits on relocating store entires to the end
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They are too advanced for up front.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a210504bc7
Apply suggestions from code review
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e64633f98f
Flesh out TOC
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a2b3160f28
Briefly describe the digest of a store path
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
523359d133
WIP: Document the design of Nix
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The current docs are all "how to do things" and no "what is Nix" or "why
are things the way they are".
I see lots of misconception on the wider internet, and I also think we
would benefit from a "living document" to answer some questions people
currently turn to the thesis for.
I think a new section of the manual can address all these issues.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
499ed26508
manual: remove "Writing Nix Expressions" chapter
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it is out of date, all over the place in level of detail, is really
about `nixpkgs`, and in general instructions should not be part of
a reference manual.
also:
- update redirects and internal links
- use "Nix language" consistently
2022-08-04 11:59:25 +02:00
Erik Arvstedt
4c8441be0a
docs/flake-update: fix example
2022-08-04 09:45:30 +02:00
Erik Arvstedt
53833dfb40
libexpr/flake: remove FIXME
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Line 593 checks that all overrides (i.e. all elements of
`lockFlags.inputOverrides`) are members of `overridesUsed`.
2022-08-04 09:45:29 +02:00
Erik Arvstedt
c9f446ede1
flakeref: fix comment
2022-08-04 09:45:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
075bf6e556
Merge pull request #6861 from edolstra/fix-count-calls
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Fix NIX_COUNT_CALLS=1
2022-08-03 18:26:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ccbd906c86
Fix NIX_COUNT_CALLS=1
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Also, make the JSON writer support std::string_view.
Fixes #6857 .
2022-08-03 17:46:51 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7d1ccd9105
Merge pull request #6846 from fricklerhandwerk/values
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manual: use subheadings for primitive types
2022-08-03 14:50:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
c55bea4204
Fix the html id of the list headers
2022-08-03 14:16:00 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ceed4d4142
encode primitive as list with anchors
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to make it consistent with builtins and configuration options
2022-08-03 11:25:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
780a479386
Merge pull request #6851 from K900/patch-1
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doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias
2022-08-02 07:17:09 +02:00
Ilya K
f675ba5331
doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias
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`nix ping-store` -> `nix store ping`.
2022-08-01 13:50:35 +03:00
Jeremy Fleischman
297f6b5d56
Fix link to hacking doc
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Right now,
https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/build.x86_64-linux/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual/contributing/hacking.html
redirects to
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/183877779/download/1/manual/contributing/hacking.html ,
which gives me a "500 Internal Server Error". Not super useful =(
Feel free to ignore if someone's working to fix the 500 I was running
into.
2022-07-30 09:12:50 -07:00
Rok Garbas
e9178d7d4a
Merge pull request #6844 from centromere/custom-nix-conf
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docker.nix: Allow Nix configuration to be customized
2022-07-29 13:47:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too
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Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
41a3b315fd
manual: values -> data types
2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8f4fab8fab
manual: use singular for headings
2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4ff48854b8
manual: simple values -> primitives
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"simple" is a loaded term
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3063e5b94c
manual: use subheadings for primitive types
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this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86fcd4f692
Merge pull request #6845 from fricklerhandwerk/attrset
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manual: set -> attribute set
2022-07-28 16:55:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
85cdaebcd6
manual: set -> attribute set
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reword description to have shorter sentences.
2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00