| 23 Jul 2021 |
 tomberek | I updated the nix-tests-terraform (https://github.com/tomberek/nix-tests-terraform) and have a failure on Alpine, but seems to be due to a groupadd/addgroup mixup in the setup. | 17:03:08 |
| tomberek | I’ll look at Graham’s test matrix next. | 17:36:48 |
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 pamplemousse | I am confused by some code in the evaluator:
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/eval.cc#L1152
What's e here? Where does it come from (where does it receives a value)? | 23:18:40 |
| pamplemousse | Could anyone enlighten me please? | 23:18:58 |
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| tomberek | pamplemousse: maybe https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/eval.hh#L177 | 23:24:38 |
| tomberek | or actually: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/293220bed5a75efc963e33c183787e87e55e28d9/src/libexpr/nixexpr.hh#L165 | 23:30:13 |
| tomberek | * pamplemousse: maybe ~~https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/eval.hh#L177~~ | 23:32:17 |
| 24 Jul 2021 |
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| jaen | Hello, is this the right place for "nix is behaving very weirdly when trying to build a package flake output and I don't know why"? | 11:44:42 |
 abathur | In reply to @jaen:matrix.org
Hello, is this the right place for "nix is behaving very weirdly when trying to build a package flake output and I don't know why"? #nix:nixos.org | 14:41:41 |
 balsoft | Or #flakes:nixos.org | 15:20:32 |
| abathur | In reply to @abathur:matrix.org
I'll at least aspire to find some time to read over the changeset and take some notes, as well ~publicly acknowledging that I've been through this at least once and have notes that I'm happy to discuss in private/ephemeral forms. I'm leery of posting them in the open since I'd rather not risk playing any role in exacerbating/prolonging the tension/frustration around this changeset. | 18:48:10 |
| abathur | But I don't think that changes the next-step: getting the conditions people are hoping it would fix under test | 18:55:44 |
| 26 Jul 2021 |
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| pamplemousse | Is there any library linked statically in nix? | 22:49:35 |
| 27 Jul 2021 |
| balsoft | Not in the default distribution, but there is static-nix | 09:10:03 |
 Alyssa Ross | Redacted or Malformed Event | 09:16:49 |
| pamplemousse | What's the consensus on languages to be used for scripts?
So far, I have a couple of bash scripts to easily build / run the fuzzers I have so far.
But as I am making diverse harnesses (one exercising only the parsing, other parsing and evaluation, and later maybe other components - daemon...), with different sanitizers, those scripts are growing, and I want them to take options.
Now, I feel like using python with https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html is a really neat way of providing a nice interface for my script (and also more maintainable than bash).
| 17:32:59 |
 Regnat | In reply to @pamplemouss_:matrix.org
What's the consensus on languages to be used for scripts?
So far, I have a couple of bash scripts to easily build / run the fuzzers I have so far.
But as I am making diverse harnesses (one exercising only the parsing, other parsing and evaluation, and later maybe other components - daemon...), with different sanitizers, those scripts are growing, and I want them to take options.
Now, I feel like using python with https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html is a really neat way of providing a nice interface for my script (and also more maintainable than bash).
As long as it’s not required for building Nix itself, I think python is totally fine | 18:17:26 |
 andi- | Does Nix assume that paths are valid utf-8 or could they be utf-16 or whatever weird jap character set there might be? | 18:20:41 |
| tomberek | andi-: these checks (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libstore/path.cc#L5-L29) seem to indicate a limited character set | 18:29:24 |
| andi- | but that only applies to names of derivations not files within a folder, right | 18:30:29 |
| andi- | * but that only applies to names of derivations not files within a folder, right? | 18:30:31 |
| tomberek | correct, i'd presume file names inside a store-path are not so restricted.... time to test it! | 18:31:12 |
| tomberek | [tom@tsurf:~/temp]$ ls /nix/store/mv1iw4cg27fnavhshiwk642s0dwr047a-unicode/
☺
| 18:32:42 |
| andi- | nix-repl> builtins.readDir ./.
{ "👍" = "regular"; }
| 18:33:08 |
