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Ryan Lahfa f71bb351d2 feat(tvix/glue): introduce test suite for context strings 
This is an additional test suite on the top of the Nix ones
for context strings matters.

It already smoked out multiple mistakes and potential bugs and non-deterministic result from the evaluator.

It uses a similar technology as the one in the tvix-eval albeit we instantiate a fully fledged evaluator
with in-memory store.

We copy the files instead of symlinking them because crates are built in
isolation, so symlinks cannot work.

Change-Id: I63ae225ce4f83c6e2c8ccd60d779c2f8eb9d08fb
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10619
Autosubmit: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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benches fix(tvix/eval): Update eval benches for new API 2024-01-05 16:30:51 +00:00
builtin-macros refactor(tvix/eval): address clippy lints 2023-12-09 12:58:39 +00:00
docs feat(tvix/eval): impl unsafeDiscardStringContext 2024-01-03 23:24:07 +00:00
proptest-regressions/value refactor(tvix/eval): flatten call stack of VM using generators 2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
src feat(tvix/glue): introduce test suite for context strings 2024-01-17 17:31:07 +00:00
tests refactor(tvix/eval): remove code and location from struct 2023-12-31 13:15:24 +00:00
.skip-subtree feat(tvix/tests): check in Nix' language test suite 2022-08-24 21:25:41 +00:00
build.rs feat(tvix/eval): implement builtins.currentSystem 2022-10-24 12:20:01 +00:00
Cargo.toml fix(tvix/eval): getContext merges underlying values 2024-01-17 17:25:24 +00:00
default.nix refactor(tvix): build Rust projects using crate2nix 2022-12-15 17:26:45 +00:00
README.md docs(tvix/eval): update test suite documentation 2023-06-15 19:28:16 +00:00

README.md

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 tvix-eval

Please check the README.md one level up for instructions on how to build this.

The evaluator itself 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

Tests

Tvix currently has three language test suites for tvix-eval:

  • nix_tests and tvix_tests are based on the same mechanism borrowed from the C++ Nix implementation. They consist of Nix files as well as expected output (if applicable). The test cases are split into four categories: eval-okay (evaluates successfully with the expected output), eval-fail (fails to evaluate, no expected output), parse-okay (expression parses successfully, no expected output) and parse-fail (expression fails to parse, no expected output). Tvix currently ignores the last two types of test cases, since it doesn't implement its own parser.

    Both test suites have a notyetpassing directory. All test cases in here test behavior that is not yet supported by Tvix. They are considered to be expected failures, so you can't forget to move them into the test suite proper when fixing the incompatibility.

    Additionally, separate targets in the depot pipeline, under //tvix/verify-lang-tests, check both test suites (including notyetpassing directories) against C++ Nix 2.3 and the default C++ Nix version in nixpkgs. This way we can prevent accidentally introducing test cases for behavior that C++ Nix doesn't exhibit.

    • nix_tests has the test cases from C++ Nix's language test suite and is sporadically updated by manually syncing the directories. The notyetpassing directory shows how far it is until we pass it completely.

    • tvix_tests contains test cases written by the Tvix contributors. Some more or less duplicate test cases contained in nix_tests, but many cover relevant behavior that isn't by nix_tests. Consequently, it'd be nice to eventually merge the two test suites into a jointly maintained, common Nix language test suite.

      It also has a notyetpassing directory for missing behavior that is discovered while working on Tvix and isn't covered by the nix_tests suite.

  • nix_oracle can evaluate Nix expressions in Tvix and compare the result against C++ Nix (2.3) directly. Eventually it should gain the ability to property test generated Nix expressions. An additional feature is that it can evaluate expressions without --strict, so thunking behavior can be verified more easily.

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.