This adds rough notes documenting the history of the Nix
daemon protocol, how logging works as well as begins
documenting inputs and outputs for all operations.
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Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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nix_oracle is quite misleading, and fooled me into thinking this
validates all .exp files in the repo to match Nix output (which it
doesn't, that's done by verify-lang-tests).
Also, the whole test suite structure thing can use a bit more
explanation.
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Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: Connor Brewster <cbrewster@hey.com>
This contains a rough collection of ideas on the TODO list, trying to
keep track of it somewhere.
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Reviewed-by: picnoir picnoir <picnoir@alternativebit.fr>
This was true while we didn't do string contexts, but drvPath should not
differ anymore.
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Reviewed-by: edef <edef@edef.eu>
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Some of the docs are still outdated (like architecture and drv path
inconsistencies).
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Reviewed-by: edef <edef@edef.eu>
This question popped up every once in a while. While already explained
quite well at
https://inbox.tvl.su/depot/20230316120039.j4fkp3puzrtbjcpi@tp/T/#t,
it's not easily accessible.
Lift it from there into tvix/docs for better visibility.
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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This explicitly documents behavior of C++ Nix that goes against the
intuition you'd gather from this document: that e.g. a simple select
from an attribute set causes a value to no longer be pointer equal to
its former self.
The point of documenting this is that we can show in a to be written
section on the use of pointer equality in nixpkgs that pointer equality
is only needed in a limited sense for evaluating it (C++ Nix's exterior
pointer equality). Tvix's pointer equality is far more powerful since
value identity preserving operations also preserve pointer equality,
generally speaking (this is because we implement interior pointer
equality in my made up terminology). This should eventually also be
documented.
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Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
I want to expand on the C++ Nix behavior, since it seems relevant to
note that a lot of operations in C++ Nix (like select) don't preserve
pointer equality (see
<https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3371#issuecomment-1596167957>).
It is especially so, as Tvix establishes pointer equality in a different
way and thus shows differing behavior. Therefore I want to additionally
document Tvix's current behavior and make it more explicit to what
extent nixpkgs needs pointer equality.
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Main one is the its-it's mistake in the last paragraph, the rest was
suggested by LanguageTool.
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Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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This was put together by digging through the C++ Nix git history as
described in the second paragraph. Note that this is only based on
changes given when the language version was actually increased.
There is no guarantee that there have been no other changes inbetween
that would have warranted an increase as well.
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Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This extends various ideas around the store and its slightly different
internal model.
Thanks to store composition, lazy substitution and more efficient
transfer, we can also simplify some complicated logic while building.
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This is only the introductory text, without any of the components
specified so far.
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Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
We also want to access the produced SVGs separately.
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
Most other docs folders in the repo are called `doc` too, let's make
this consistent.
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