| 9 Jul 2025 |
 Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @nh2:matrix.org
looks like that message should be improved to make that clear Yeah sorry, I think that error message is my bad. | 18:58:48 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @jonhermansen:matrix.org
does it happen on Lix? IIRC libarchive is used to support more compression algorithms like bz2, which are not natively supported by curl. IFAIK lix did away with encodings not supported by curl. I wonder how libcurl handles such situations under the hood when using built-in support for decompression. | 19:04:07 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @jonhermansen:matrix.org
can you see verbose curl info when running Nix? -vvvvv (I think the level there is vomit) also makes libcurl output headers and other debug info. | 19:06:03 |
| 10 Jul 2025 |
 jade_ | yeah. lix has plausibly had more refactoring of the http client because it was previously doing standards noncompliant stuff | 03:44:30 |
| 11 Jul 2025 |
|  jollywater joined the room. | 01:11:43 |
| jollywater | any plans or current development in rust for Nix/NixOS? | 01:12:32 |
 K900 | Nix itself not much, Lix folks are exploring some things | 06:17:24 |
| K900 | NixOS has a bunch of Rust yes | 06:17:28 |
| jollywater | nice to see rust being implemented in the OS itself, ill have to go look over the github | 07:46:44 |
| K900 | Most of the Rust code is in nixpkgs itself | 07:48:10 |
| K900 | e.g. switch-to-configuration-ng | 07:48:18 |
| K900 | And a bunch more tooling | 07:48:24 |
| jollywater | git only shows 0.2% Rust | 07:48:47 |
| K900 | Well yes, because the repo is overwhelmingly Nix | 07:49:19 |
| jollywater | I know thats not a good metric though, yall make it a priority to code new tools in rust? | 07:49:25 |
| K900 | No | 07:49:29 |
| K900 | There is no such policy | 07:49:35 |
| K900 | Generally those kinds of decisions are made on a case by case basis | 07:49:53 |
| jollywater | not policy persay but strong focus or interest from contributors | 07:49:57 |
| K900 | I don't think so, really | 07:50:10 |
| K900 | We'd like to not grow more bespoke tooling, generally | 07:50:29 |
| K900 | Though that's often hard to avoid | 07:50:35 |
| jollywater | understandable | 07:50:45 |
| K900 | But I do think we're moving in a direction of working with upstreams more to solve our problems | 07:51:01 |
| K900 | Instead of trying to build around them | 07:51:05 |
| jollywater | loved hearing about the rewrite for nixos-rebuild | 07:51:10 |
| K900 | Which is good | 07:51:17 |
| jollywater | looked over some old articles and blog posts etc trying to figure out how to help out and noticed the bug requests on git just keep getting higher and thought thatd be a good place to start👍 ones that affect usability. | 07:52:43 |
| K900 | The number of open issues is a really bad metric tbh | 07:53:24 |
| jollywater | im aware just gotta sort through to find actual bugs👍 I mainly code in rust though so thats why I was asking about rust | 07:54:25 |
