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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2014-10-04	Add primop ‘catAttrs’	Eelco Dolstra

2014-10-04	Add primop ‘attrValues’	Eelco Dolstra

2014-10-04	Tweak	Eelco Dolstra

2014-10-03	Remove some duplicate code	Eelco Dolstra

2014-10-03	Add readDir primop	Shea Levy

2014-09-23	Add missing static	Eelco Dolstra

2014-09-22	Don't evaluate inside a "throw"	Eelco Dolstra
	Workaround for https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41174. This caused hydra-eval-jobs to ignore SIGINT.
2014-09-22	Add ‘deepSeq’ primop	Eelco Dolstra
	Note that unlike ‘lib.deepSeq’ in Nixpkgs, this handles cycles.
2014-09-22	Add ‘seq’ primop	Eelco Dolstra

2014-09-22	Add a function ‘valueSize’	Eelco Dolstra
	It returns the size of value, including all other values and environments reachable from it. It is intended for debugging memory consumption issues.
2014-09-19	attrNames: Don't allocate duplicates of the symbols	Eelco Dolstra

2014-09-19	Fix off-by-one	Eelco Dolstra

2014-09-17	Add some instrumentation for debugging GC leaks	Eelco Dolstra

2014-08-20	Use proper quotes everywhere	Eelco Dolstra

2014-07-30	Rename nixPath to __nixPath	Eelco Dolstra
	The name ‘nixPath’ breaks existing code.
2014-07-09	Fix compilation error on some versions of GCC	Eelco Dolstra
	src/libexpr/primops.cc:42:8: error: looser throw specifier for 'virtual nix::InvalidPathError::~InvalidPathError()' src/libexpr/nixexpr.hh:12:1: error: overriding 'virtual nix::EvalError::~EvalError() noexcept (true)' http://hydra.nixos.org/build/12385750
2014-07-04	Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’	Eelco Dolstra
	Fixes #294.
2014-06-24	Only add the importNative primop if the ↵	Shea Levy
	allow-arbitrary-code-during-evaluation option is true (default false)
2014-06-17	Add importNative primop	Shea Levy
	This can be used to import a dynamic shared object and return an arbitrary value, including new primops. This can be used both to test new primops without having to recompile nix every time, and to build specialized primops that probably don't belong upstream (e.g. a function that calls out to gpg to decrypt a nixops secret as-needed). The imported function should initialize the Value & as needed. A single import can define multiple values by creating an attrset or list, of course. An example initialization function might look like: extern "C" void initialize(nix::EvalState & state, nix::Value & v) { v.type = nix::tPrimOp; v.primOp = NEW nix::PrimOp(myFun, 1, state.symbols.create("myFun")); } Then `builtins.importNative ./example.so "initialize"` will evaluate to the primop defined in the myFun function.
2014-06-12	Drop ImportError and FindError	Eelco Dolstra
	We're not catching these anywhere.
2014-06-12	findFile: Realise the context of the path attributes	Shea Levy

2014-06-12	Share code between scopedImport and import	Shea Levy
	In addition to reducing duplication, this fixes both import from derivation and import of derivation for scopedImport
2014-06-10	== operator: Ignore string context	Eelco Dolstra
	There really is no case I can think of where taking the context into account is useful. Mostly it's just very inconvenient.
2014-05-29	Sort nixPath attributes	Eelco Dolstra

2014-05-26	Make the Nix search path declarative	Eelco Dolstra
	Nix search path lookups like <nixpkgs> are now desugared to ‘findFile nixPath <nixpkgs>’, where ‘findFile’ is a new primop. Thus you can override the search path simply by saying let nixPath = [ { prefix = "nixpkgs"; path = "/my-nixpkgs"; } ]; in ... <nixpkgs> ... In conjunction with ‘scopedImport’ (commit c273c15cb13bb86420dda1e5341a4e19517532b5), the Nix search path can be propagated across imports, e.g. let overrides = { nixPath = [ ... ] ++ builtins.nixPath; import = fn: scopedImport overrides fn; scopedImport = attrs: fn: scopedImport (overrides // attrs) fn; builtins = builtins // overrides; }; in scopedImport overrides ./nixos
2014-05-26	Add constant ‘nixPath’	Eelco Dolstra
	It contains the Nix expression search path as a list of { prefix, path } sets, e.g. [ { path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos"; prefix = ""; } { path = "/etc/nixos/configuration.nix"; prefix = "nixos-config"; } { path = "/home/eelco/Dev/nix/inst/share/nix/corepkgs"; prefix = "nix"; } ]
2014-05-26	Add primop ‘scopedImport’	Eelco Dolstra
	‘scopedImport’ works like ‘import’, except that it takes a set of attributes to be added to the lexical scope of the expression, essentially extending or overriding the builtin variables. For instance, the expression scopedImport { x = 1; } ./foo.nix where foo.nix contains ‘x’, will evaluate to 1. This has a few applications: * It allows getting rid of function argument specifications in package expressions. For instance, a package expression like: { stdenv, fetchurl, libfoo }: stdenv.mkDerivation { ... buildInputs = [ libfoo ]; } can now we written as just stdenv.mkDerivation { ... buildInputs = [ libfoo ]; } and imported in all-packages.nix as: bar = scopedImport pkgs ./bar.nix; So whereas we once had dependencies listed in three places (buildInputs, the function, and the call site), they now only need to appear in one place. * It allows overriding builtin functions. For instance, to trace all calls to ‘map’: let overrides = { map = f: xs: builtins.trace "map called!" (map f xs); # Ensure that our override gets propagated by calls to # import/scopedImport. import = fn: scopedImport overrides fn; scopedImport = attrs: fn: scopedImport (overrides // attrs) fn; # Also update ‘builtins’. builtins = builtins // overrides; }; in scopedImport overrides ./bla.nix * Similarly, it allows extending the set of builtin functions. For instance, during Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation, the Nixpkgs library functions could be added to the default scope. There is a downside: calls to scopedImport are not memoized, unlike import. So importing a file multiple times leads to multiple parsings / evaluations. It would be possible to construct the AST only once, but that would require careful handling of variables/environments.
2014-05-26	Shut up some signedness warnings	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-08	If a .drv cannot be parsed, show its path	Eelco Dolstra
	Otherwise you just get ‘expected string `Derive(['’ which isn't very helpful.
2014-04-04	Show position info in Boolean operations	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-04	Show position info in string concatenation / addition errors	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-04	forceString: Show position info	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-04	forceAttrs: Show position info	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-04	forceList: Show position info	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-04	forceInt: Show position info	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-04	Pass position information to primop calls	Eelco Dolstra
	For example: error: `tail' called on an empty list, at /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-2/default.nix:13:7
2014-04-04	Include position info in function application	Eelco Dolstra
	This allows error messages like: error: the anonymous function at `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:1:1' called without required argument `foo', at `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:77:59'
2014-01-21	Merge branch 'master' into make	Eelco Dolstra
	Conflicts: src/libexpr/eval.cc
2013-12-10	Bump language version for new storePath feature	Shea Levy
	This will allow e.g. channel expressions to use builtins.storePath IFF it is safe to do so without knowing if the path is valid yet. Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-12-10	builtins.storePath: Try to substitute the path if it is not yet valid	Shea Levy
	Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-11-23	Implement basic ‘make install’	Eelco Dolstra

2013-11-19	Shorter error message	Eelco Dolstra

2013-11-19	Add a toJSON primop	Eelco Dolstra

2013-11-18	Add a primop unsafeGetAttrPos to return the position of an attribute	Eelco Dolstra

2013-10-28	Fix building without a garbage collector	Eelco Dolstra
	http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6695350
2013-10-28	Fix a segfault in genericClosure	Eelco Dolstra
	It kept temporary data in STL containers that were not scanned by Boehm GC, so Nix programs using genericClosure could randomly crash if the garbage collector kicked in at a bad time. Also make it a bit more efficient by copying points to values rather than values.
2013-10-28	Slightly optimize listToAttrs	Eelco Dolstra

2013-10-24	Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"	Eelco Dolstra
	We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24	Add a typeOf primop	Eelco Dolstra
	We already have some primops for determining the type of a value, such as isString, but they're incomplete: for instance, there is no isPath. Rather than adding more isBla functions, the generic typeOf function returns a string representing the type of the argument (e.g. "int").
2013-10-17	Fold two stack trace messages in derivations	Eelco Dolstra
	Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations are now much less verbose, since something like while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr': while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict': while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3': while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17': while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9': ... now reads while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3': ...