| 7 Feb 2026 |
 raitobezarius | Yep, we have been following your project, super interesting | 20:04:47 |
| raitobezarius | But we would like to make it possible via proper RPC wires than taking over the entire build-hook :D | 20:05:07 |
| raitobezarius | (we being the Lix core team) | 20:05:50 |
 Lisanna | How are you envisioning that working? Will there be a different nix.conf setting for hooks that speak the RPC protocol? | 20:06:35 |
| raitobezarius | If you are familiar with how Snix works, we would fission the whole build subsystem into its own RPC boundary, so someone could tap into a library to spawn a build RPC component and bring their own scheduler logic | 20:07:18 |
| raitobezarius | It's already kinda possible to do something akin that by proxying Nix daemon protocol | 20:07:34 |
| raitobezarius | * It's already kinda possible to do something akin to that by proxying Nix daemon protocol | 20:07:43 |
| raitobezarius | (we would also use that work to enable better out-of-the-box scheduler logic, remote building and more) | 20:08:04 |
| raitobezarius | The remote building hook has been already subject to RPC-ification with Cap'n'Proto, so we are working towards slowly confirming our expectations for this architecture | 20:08:40 |
| Lisanna | I will take a look at the Snix implementation, I have not looked at it at all yet | 20:09:18 |
| raitobezarius | https://snix.dev/docs/components/overview/ | 20:09:29 |
| raitobezarius | They have cute figures | 20:09:31 |
| raitobezarius | https://snix.dev/docs/components/build/protocol/ is relevant too | 20:09:39 |
| Lisanna | ^-^ | 20:09:39 |
| Lisanna | so you would launch your custom builder as a standalone program, and it would then register itself as a builder through a library call? rather than being launched by the Lix cli or daemon directly? | 20:18:19 |
| raitobezarius | the deployment story is not totally hammered down, but a daemon frontend could receive build daemons URIs (remote or local), once you run a lix command that makes use of build, they would be sent to that daemon via RPC | 20:19:19 |
| raitobezarius | but yeah, in that context, Lix CLI or daemon wouldn't execve() a build component | 20:19:52 |
| raitobezarius | it would be delegated | 20:19:55 |
| Lisanna | alright | 20:20:02 |
| Lisanna | I'll keep watch for progress on this front, and see about adding a mode to my program for this kind of usage | 20:21:15 |
| Lisanna | is there an issue tracking it I can follow? | 20:22:28 |
| raitobezarius | https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/911 | 20:23:49 |
| raitobezarius | for build-hook | 20:23:53 |
