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If the tvix view is cloned through josh, you don't use mg, but a `shell.nix` is provided. Also, add the `git clone` command, so people browsing tvix source code in the browser know where to clone from. Change-Id: I18483d6a52953f9f4eafd1533ea69afb0e329b04 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8001 Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI |
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cli | ||
docs | ||
eval | ||
nix-compat | ||
nix_cli | ||
proto | ||
serde | ||
store | ||
verify-lang-tests | ||
.gitignore | ||
Cargo.lock | ||
Cargo.nix | ||
Cargo.toml | ||
crate-hashes.json | ||
default.nix | ||
LICENSE | ||
OWNERS | ||
README.md |
Tvix
For more information about Tvix, feel free to reach out. We are interested in people who would like to help us review designs, brainstorm and describe requirements that we may not yet have considered.
Most of the discussion around development happens on our IRC channel, which you can join in several ways documented on tvl.fyi.
There's also some discussion around development on our mailing list.
Building the CLI
The CLI can also be built with standard Rust tooling (i.e. cargo build
),
as long as you are in a shell with the right dependencies.
- If you cloned the full monorepo, it can be provided by
mg shell // tvix:shell
. - If you cloned the
tvix
workspace only (git clone https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git:workspace=views/tvix.git
),nix-shell
provides it.
If you're in the TVL monorepo, you can also run mg build //tvix/cli
(or mg build
from inside that folder) for a more incremental build.
Please follow the depot-wide instructions on how to get mg
and use the depot
tooling.
Compatibility
Important note: We only use and test Nix builds of our software against Nix 2.3. There are a variety of bugs and subtle problems in newer Nix versions which we do not have the bandwidth to address, builds in newer Nix versions may or may not work.
Rust projects, crate2nix
Some parts of Tvix are written in Rust. To simplify the dependency
management on the Nix side of these builds, we use crate2nix
in a
single Rust workspace in //tvix
to maintain the Nix build
configuration.
When making changes to Cargo dependency configuration in any of the
Rust projects under //tvix
, be sure to run
mg run //tvix:crate2nixGenerate --
in //tvix
itself and commit the changes
to the generated Cargo.nix
file. This only applies to the full TVL checkout.
License structure
All code implemented for Tvix is licensed under the GPL-3.0, with the exception of the protocol buffer definitions used for communication between services which are available under a more permissive license (MIT).
The idea behind this structure is that any direct usage of our code (e.g. linking to it, embedding the evaluator, etc.) will fall under the terms of the GPL3, but users are free to implement their own components speaking these protocols under the terms of the MIT license.