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Using rust's PartialEq trait to implement Nix equality semantics is reasonably fraught with peril, both because the actual laws are different than what nix expects, and (more importantly) because certain things actually require extra context to compare for equality (for example, thunks need to be forced). This converts the manual PartialEq impl for Value (and all its descendants) to a *derived* PartialEq impl (which requires a lot of extra PartialEq derives on miscellanious other types within the codebase), and converts the previous nix-semantics equality comparison into a new `nix_eq` method. This returns an EvalResult, even though it can't currently return an error, to allow it to fail when eg forcing thunks (which it will do soon). Since the PartialEq impls for Value and NixAttrs are now quite boring, this converts the generated proptests for those into handwritten ones that cover `nix_eq` instead Change-Id: If3da7171f88c22eda5b7a60030d8b00c3b76f672 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6650 Autosubmit: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su> |
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Tvix Evaluator
This project implements an interpreter for the Nix programming language. You can experiment with an online version of the evaluator: tvixbolt.
The interpreter aims to be compatible with nixpkgs, on the
foundation of Nix 2.3.
Important note: The evaluator is not yet feature-complete, and while the core mechanisms (compiler, runtime, ...) have stabilised somewhat, a lot of components are still changing rapidly.
Please contact TVL with any questions you might have.
Building the evaluator
If you are in a full checkout of the TVL depot, you can simply run mg build in this directory (or mg build //tvix/eval from anywhere in
the repo).
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.
The evaluator can also be built with standard Rust tooling (i.e.
cargo build).
If you would like to clone only the evaluator and build it directly with Rust tooling, you can do:
git clone https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git:/tvix/eval.git tvix-eval
cd tvix-eval && cargo build
Nix test suite
C++ Nix implements a language test suite in the form of Nix source code files, and their expected output. The coverage of this test suite is not complete, but we intend to be compatible with it.
We have ported the test suite to Tvix, but do not run it by default as we are not yet compatible with it.
You can run the test suite by enabling the nix_tests feature in
Cargo:
cargo test --features nix_tests
rnix-parser
Tvix is written in memory of jD91mZM2, the author of rnix-parser who sadly passed away.
Tvix makes heavy use of rnix-parser in its bytecode compiler. The parser is now maintained by Nix community members.