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authorJohn Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>2023-01-15 17:39:04 -0500
committerJohn Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>2023-08-10 00:08:32 -0400
commit60b7121d2c6d4322b7c2e8e7acfec7b701b2d3a1 (patch)
treec07508902903edf2d1a11b135ddd2bb512819ea6 /shell.nix
parentd00fe5f22559efc6f8b4b92eab537b08c0e43dee (diff)
Make the Derived Path family of types inductive for dynamic derivations
We want to be able to write down `foo.drv^bar.drv^baz`: `foo.drv^bar.drv` is the dynamic derivation (since it is itself a derivation output, `bar.drv` from `foo.drv`). To that end, we create `Single{Derivation,BuiltPath}` types, that are very similar except instead of having multiple outputs (in a set or map), they have a single one. This is for everything to the left of the rightmost `^`. `NixStringContextElem` has an analogous change, and now can reuse `SingleDerivedPath` at the top level. In fact, if we ever get rid of `DrvDeep`, `NixStringContextElem` could be replaced with `SingleDerivedPath` entirely! Important note: some JSON formats have changed. We already can *produce* dynamic derivations, but we can't refer to them directly. Today, we can merely express building or example at the top imperatively over time by building `foo.drv^bar.drv`, and then with a second nix invocation doing `<result-from-first>^baz`, but this is not declarative. The ethos of Nix of being able to write down the full plan everything you want to do, and then execute than plan with a single command, and for that we need the new inductive form of these types. Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
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