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2017-03-08	Add option to disable import-from-derivation completely, even if the drv is ↵	Shea Levy
	already realized
2017-01-26	Add support for passing structured data to builders	Eelco Dolstra
	Previously, all derivation attributes had to be coerced into strings so that they could be passed via the environment. This is lossy (e.g. lists get flattened, necessitating configureFlags vs. configureFlagsArray, of which the latter cannot be specified as an attribute), doesn't support attribute sets at all, and has size limitations (necessitating hacks like passAsFile). This patch adds a new mode for passing attributes to builders, namely encoded as a JSON file ".attrs.json" in the current directory of the builder. This mode is activated via the special attribute __structuredAttrs = true; (The idea is that one day we can set this in stdenv.mkDerivation.) For example, stdenv.mkDerivation { __structuredAttrs = true; name = "foo"; buildInputs = [ pkgs.hello pkgs.cowsay ]; doCheck = true; hardening.format = false; } results in a ".attrs.json" file containing (sans the indentation): { "buildInputs": [], "builder": "/nix/store/ygl61ycpr2vjqrx775l1r2mw1g2rb754-bash-4.3-p48/bin/bash", "configureFlags": [ "--with-foo", "--with-bar=1 2" ], "doCheck": true, "hardening": { "format": false }, "name": "foo", "nativeBuildInputs": [ "/nix/store/10h6li26i7g6z3mdpvra09yyf10mmzdr-hello-2.10", "/nix/store/4jnvjin0r6wp6cv1hdm5jbkx3vinlcvk-cowsay-3.03" ], "propagatedBuildInputs": [], "propagatedNativeBuildInputs": [], "stdenv": "/nix/store/f3hw3p8armnzy6xhd4h8s7anfjrs15n2-stdenv", "system": "x86_64-linux" } "passAsFile" is ignored in this mode because it's not needed - large strings are included directly in the JSON representation. It is up to the builder to do something with the JSON representation. For example, in bash-based builders, lists/attrsets of string values could be mapped to bash (associative) arrays.
2017-01-26	Bindings: Add a method for iterating in lexicographically sorted order	Eelco Dolstra

2017-01-24	Revert "Propagate path context via builtins.readFile"	Eelco Dolstra
	This reverts commit f7f0116dd727ac954fb04d9ef9b9fe7ec034e563. Issue #1174.
2017-01-24	Revert "builtins.readFile: Put the references of the file, not those needed ↵	Eelco Dolstra
	to realize the file, into the context" Reverting commit 451c223deea17918454ae083dcfc0ea2b6103cab for now because it breaks http://hydra.nixos.org/build/46805136, not clear why.
2017-01-10	builtins.readFile: Put the references of the file, not those needed to ↵	Shea Levy
	realize the file, into the context
2016-11-26	Revert "Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140)"	Eelco Dolstra
	This reverts commit f78126bfd6b6c8477fcdbc09b2f98772dbe9a1e7. There really is no need for such a massive change...
2016-11-25	Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140)	Guillaume Maudoux

2016-10-26	Fix SIGFPE from integer overflow during division	Tuomas Tynkkynen
	On some architectures (like x86_64 or i686, but not ARM for example) overflow during integer division causes a crash due to SIGFPE. Reproduces on a 64-bit system with: nix-instantiate --eval -E '(-9223372036854775807 - 1) / -1' The only way this can happen is when the smallest possible integer is divided by -1, so just special-case that.
2016-10-19	fixup! replace own regex class with std::regex	Alexander Ried

2016-10-18	replace own regex class with std::regex	Alexander Ried

2016-09-21	printMsg(lvlError, ...) -> printError(...) etc.	Eelco Dolstra

2016-09-14	Enable HTTP/2 support	Eelco Dolstra
	The binary cache store can now use HTTP/2 to do lookups. This is much more efficient than HTTP/1.1 due to multiplexing: we can issue many requests in parallel over a single TCP connection. Thus it's no longer necessary to use a bunch of concurrent TCP connections (25 by default). For example, downloading 802 .narinfo files from https://cache.nixos.org/, using a single TCP connection, takes 11.8s with HTTP/1.1, but only 0.61s with HTTP/2. This did require a fairly substantial rewrite of the Downloader class to use the curl multi interface, because otherwise curl wouldn't be able to do multiplexing for us. As a bonus, we get connection reuse even with HTTP/1.1. All downloads are now handled by a single worker thread. Clients call Downloader::enqueueDownload() to tell the worker thread to start the download, getting a std::future to the result.
2016-08-29	forceBool(): Show position info	Eelco Dolstra

2016-08-29	Add builtin function "partition"	Eelco Dolstra
	The implementation of "partition" in Nixpkgs is O(n^2) (because of the use of ++), and for some reason was causing stack overflows in multi-threaded evaluation (not sure why). This reduces "nix-env -qa --drv-path" runtime by 0.197s and memory usage by 298 MiB (in non-Boehm mode).
2016-08-17	Add a mechanism for derivation attributes to reference the derivation's outputs	Eelco Dolstra
	For example, you can now say: configureFlags = "--prefix=${placeholder "out"} --includedir=${placeholder "dev"}"; The strings returned by the ‘placeholder’ builtin are replaced at build time by the actual store paths corresponding to the specified outputs. Previously, you had to work around the inability to self-reference by doing stuff like: preConfigure = '' configureFlags+=" --prefix $out --includedir=$dev" ''; or rely on ad-hoc variable interpolation semantics in Autoconf or Make (e.g. --prefix=\$(out)), which doesn't always work.
2016-08-16	Merge pull request #1031 from abbradar/replacestrings-context	Eelco Dolstra
	Allow contexted strings in replaceStrings
2016-08-16	Allow contexted strings in replaceStrings	Nikolay Amiantov

2016-08-15	builtins.fetch{url,tarball}: Allow name attribute	Shea Levy

2016-07-26	makeFixedOutputPath(): Drop superfluous HashType argument	Eelco Dolstra

2016-07-26	builtins.{fetchurl,fetchTarball}: Support a sha256 attribute	Eelco Dolstra
	Also, allow builtins.{fetchurl,fetchTarball} in restricted mode if a hash is specified.
2016-06-01	Make the store directory a member variable of Store	Eelco Dolstra

2016-05-04	Cleanup: Remove singleton()	Eelco Dolstra

2016-04-25	Improved logging abstraction	Eelco Dolstra
	This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the "pretty" log type.
2016-04-14	Make the search path lazier with non-fatal errors	Eelco Dolstra
	Thus, -I / $NIX_PATH entries are now downloaded only when they are needed for evaluation. An error to download an entry is a non-fatal warning (just like non-existant paths). This does change the semantics of builtins.nixPath, which now returns the original, rather than resulting path. E.g., before we had [ { path = "/nix/store/hgm3yxf1lrrwa3z14zpqaj5p9vs0qklk-nixexprs.tar.xz"; prefix = "nixpkgs"; } ... ] but now [ { path = "https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.03/nixexprs.tar.xz"; prefix = "nixpkgs"; } ... ] Fixes #792.
2016-04-14	Make primop registration pluggable	Eelco Dolstra
	This way we don't have to put all primops in one giant file.
2016-03-04	Propagate path context via builtins.readFile	Nikolay Amiantov

2016-02-29	Add an HTTP binary cache store	Eelco Dolstra
	Allowing stuff like NIX_REMOTE=https://cache.nixos.org nix-store -qR /nix/store/x1p1gl3a4kkz5ci0nfbayjqlqmczp1kq-geeqie-1.1 or NIX_REMOTE=https://cache.nixos.org nix-store --export /nix/store/x1p1gl3a4kkz5ci0nfbayjqlqmczp1kq-geeqie-1.1 \| nix-store --import
2016-02-12	Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats	Eelco Dolstra
	Implement floats
2016-02-04	Eliminate the "store" global variable	Eelco Dolstra
	Also, move a few free-standing functions into StoreAPI and Derivation. Also, introduce a non-nullable smart pointer, ref<T>, which is just a wrapper around std::shared_ptr ensuring that the pointer is never null. (For reference-counted values, this is better than passing a "T&", because the latter doesn't maintain the refcount. Usually, the caller will have a shared_ptr keeping the value alive, but that's not always the case, e.g., when passing a reference to a std::thread via std::bind.)
2016-01-07	Fix some signedness warnings	Eelco Dolstra

2016-01-05	Better error message	Fabian Schmitthenner
	Also show types when nix cannot compare values of different types. This is also more consistent since types are already shown when comparing values of the same not comparable type.
2016-01-05	manual: document builtins.functionArgs	Vladimír Čunát
	The text is just a conversion of comment from src/libexpr/primops.cc
2016-01-05	First hit at providing support for floats in the language.	Christian Theune

2015-07-28	Add sort primop	Eelco Dolstra

2015-07-28	Add primop genList	Eelco Dolstra
	This can be used to implement functions like ‘imap’ (or for that matter, ‘map’) without the quadratic complexity incurred by calling ‘++’ repeatedly.
2015-07-24	Add replaceStrings primop	Eelco Dolstra
	This is a generalisation of replaceChars in Nixpkgs.
2015-07-24	Add concatStringsSep as a primop	Eelco Dolstra
	This fixes the quadratic behaviour of concatStrings/concatStringsSep in Nixpkgs.
2015-07-23	Optimize small lists	Eelco Dolstra
	The value pointers of lists with 1 or 2 elements are now stored in the list value itself. In particular, this makes the "concatMap (x: if cond then [(f x)] else [])" idiom cheaper.
2015-07-23	Add primops all and any	Eelco Dolstra
	These are used thousands of times during NixOS evaluation, so it's useful to speed them up.
2015-07-23	Importing derivations: Add name attribute to make a valid drv	Shea Levy

2015-07-23	Allow derivations-as-srcs in the context of builtins.toFile files	Shea Levy

2015-07-23	Add foldl' primop	Eelco Dolstra

2015-07-17	OCD: foreach -> C++11 ranged for	Eelco Dolstra

2015-06-01	Fix fetchurl/fetchTarball	Eelco Dolstra

2015-06-01	readFile: Check against nul bytes	Eelco Dolstra

2015-05-05	Allow URLs in the Nix search path	Eelco Dolstra
	E.g. to install "hello" from the latest Nixpkgs: $ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A hello -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz Or to install a specific version of NixOS: $ nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/63def04891a0abc328b1b0b3a78ec02c58f48583.tar.gz
2015-04-09	Use cached result if there is a network error	Eelco Dolstra

2015-04-09	Move curl stuff into a separate file	Eelco Dolstra

2015-04-09	Implement a TTL on cached fetchurl/fetchTarball results	Eelco Dolstra
	This is because we don't want to do HTTP requests on every evaluation, even though we can prevent a full redownload via the cached ETag. The default is one hour.