| 16 May 2024 |
 delroth | In reply to @qyriad:katesiria.org
We had the E/easy on there since we imagined it would be as simply as changing the assertion to a user-facing error message, but seem to have underestimated the difficulty in that itself, oops nah I think that if you had explained your envisioned fix it would have been fairly trivial but having to independently come to the same conclusion without having the same background was harder :P | 22:57:50 |
| delroth | still, happy it was the same conclusion (roughly - I think rejecting at parsing time is better than failing when making the worker goals, but that's tiny details) | 22:58:22 |
 Qyriad | In reply to@jade_:matrix.org
Qyriad: ok if we stage the libnixexpr->liblixexpr etc change? Yes, absolutely. If you are getting to it before us feel free! | 22:58:53 |
 jade_ | alrighty | 22:58:58 |
| Qyriad | In reply to@delroth:delroth.net
nah I think that if you had explained your envisioned fix it would have been fairly trivial but having to independently come to the same conclusion without having the same background was harder :P Yes we absolutely should have done that. I think in retrospect we may also have been somewhat confused, since the crash doesn't happen on Nix 2.3 because of course Nix 2.3 didn't have the ^ feature | 22:59:37 |
| delroth | also re: docs thanks for the pointer, I checked many manual pages (incl. "nix build"), I checked the glossary, etc. and of course didn't think of checking the generic "nix CLI" page | 22:59:55 |
| delroth | doesn't even really make sense that it's there because I think it's only a "build" feature anyway? | 23:00:06 |
