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In fact, let me apologize for failing to coordinate anything with you this first time.
This work for everyone
👍 I've brought this up with the Nix team and we agree with the strategy to start throwing on overflow, and learn if we need a new behavior. @jade your offer to…
I can't exclude the possibility that some users rely on this behavior, as we've allowed the signed integer to overflow for probably around two decades (didn't check when * was implemented).
Whil…
The fetching is a bit indirect, happening through call-flake.nix, which in turn calls fetchTree. I suppose you could pass a secret flag or pass a special variant to call-flake.nix, but I…
builtins.derivation replacement design
These points largely agree with nix#9774. (Ignoring the bit about meta perhaps)
I'd like to keep in touch about this, and perhaps collaborate?
Also…
It's true. Relevant discussion: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10036
:doc should print documentation for built-in constants
I feel like it'd be ok to "cheat" a bit and report about expressions first, and evaluated values second. That's warranted if you consider that evaluation is a lossy process (the right kind of…
Hi 👋
Ryan kindly brought this thread to our attention in the meeting today; much appreciated.
I was the only one (not from DetSys) who somewhat reviewed this feature before it was merged…