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2006-05-30* Don't use badTerm, it gives awful error messages.Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-12* Support for srcdir != builddir (NIX-41).Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-11* 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an AthlonEelco Dolstra
64 running 64-bit SUSE). A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix succesfully.
2006-05-08* Allow function argument default values to refer to other argumentsEelco Dolstra
of the function. Implements NIX-45.
2006-05-08* Show evaluation stats when NIX_SHOW_STATS=1.Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-04* Use the new ATermMap.Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-02* Optimise null-ary term builders. Also declare all term builderEelco Dolstra
functions as pure, which might improve performance a bit.
2006-05-02* Use a linked list of substitutions. This reduces the amount ofEelco Dolstra
copying.
2006-05-02* Removed a bunch of ATreverses.Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-02* Huge reduction in memory use (2/3 or so on large nix-env -qasEelco Dolstra
operations): share ATermMaps between DrvInfos.
2006-05-02* Memory reduction: replaced expensive calls to ATmakeApplList byEelco Dolstra
ATmakeApplArray, and got rid of ATreverse in substitute().
2006-05-02* Some preliminaries towards NIX-45.Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-01* Disallow unescaped $ in string literals.Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-01* String interpolation. Expressions likeEelco Dolstra
"--with-freetype2-library=" + freetype + "/lib" can now be written as "--with-freetype2-library=${freetype}/lib" An arbitrary expression can be enclosed within ${...}, not just identifiers. * Escaping in string literals: \n, \r, \t interpreted as in C, any other character following \ is interpreted as-is. * Newlines are now allowed in string literals.
2006-05-01* Allow string concatenations involving derivations, e.g.,Eelco Dolstra
configureFlags = "--with-freetype2-library=" + freetype + "/lib";
2006-03-24* Print a more useful stack trace when an error occurs deep in theEelco Dolstra
derivation dependency graph.
2006-03-23* In `nix-env', look for derivations inside attribute sets that haveEelco Dolstra
the `recurseForDerivations' attribute set to `true'.
2006-03-23* Hm.Eelco Dolstra
2006-03-10* `nix-env -qa --description' shows human-readable descriptions ofEelco Dolstra
packages (provided that they have a `meta.description' attribute). E.g., $ ./src/nix-env/nix-env -qa --description gcc gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for sparc-linux) gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for mips-linux) gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for arm-linux) gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x
2006-03-10* In theory, this should reduce the number of ATermMapEelco Dolstra
re-allocations.
2006-03-09* Regression: semantics of the result of getDerivation() changed.Eelco Dolstra
2006-03-09* Big speedup (factor > 2.5) in all nix-env operations that do actualEelco Dolstra
instantiation, e.g. "nix-env -i" and "nix-env -qas" (but not "nix-env -qa"). It turns out that many redundant calls to addToStore(path) were made, which reads and hashes the entire path. For instance, the bash bootstrap binary in Nixpkgs would be read and hashed many times. As a result nix-env would spend around 92% of its time in the function sha256_block (according to callgrind). Some simple memoization fixes this.
2006-03-08* When obtaining derivations from Nix expressions, ignore allEelco Dolstra
expressions that cause an assertion failure (like `assert system == "i686-linux"'). This allows all-packages.nix in Nixpkgs to be used on all platforms, even if some Nix expressions don't work on all platforms. Not sure if this is a good idea; it's a bit hacky. In particular, due to laziness some derivations might appear in `nix-env -qa' but disappear in `nix-env -qas' or `nix-env -i'. Commit 5000!
2006-03-08* Some refactoring of the exception handling code so that we can catchEelco Dolstra
Nix expression assertion failures.
2006-03-06* GCC 4.1 compatibility.Eelco Dolstra
2006-03-06* `nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run' now shows exactly which missing pathsEelco Dolstra
will be built or substituted.
2006-02-13* Override YYMALLOC and YYFREE so that we can call AT[un]protectMemoryEelco Dolstra
on the Bison parse stack. Otherwise, a garbage collect during parsing could lead to a crash.
2006-02-10* In nix-instantiate, allow us to specify a "path" to theEelco Dolstra
derivation(s) we're interested, e.g., $ nix-instantiate ./all-packages.nix --attr xlibs.libX11 List elements can also be selected: $ nix-instantiate ./build-for-release.nix --attr 0.subversion This allows a non-ambiguous specification of a derivation. Of course, this should also be added to nix-env and nix-build.
2006-02-08* When querying all derivations, filter out syntactically equal derivations.Eelco Dolstra
2006-02-08* When evaluating, automatically call functions with default arguments.Eelco Dolstra
2006-02-08* Refactoring: move derivation evaluation to libexpr.Eelco Dolstra
2005-11-04* Memoise checkVarDefs since internally produced terms (i.e., not theEelco Dolstra
result of parsing) can have very heavy sharing, causing exponential complexity if we naively recurse into them. ATerms are graphs, not trees!
2005-10-29* Turn off build hooks in nix-push because of an impurity (NIX-21).Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-14* List concatenation must be right-associative for efficiency.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-13* Missing #include.Eelco Dolstra
2005-08-14* `dependencyClosure' now allows a search path, e.g.,Eelco Dolstra
dependencyClosure { ... searchPath = [ ../foo ../bar ]; ... } * Primop `dirOf' to return the directory part of a path (e.g., dirOf /a/b/c == /a/b). * Primop `relativise' (according to Webster that's a real word!) that given paths A and B returns a string representing path B relative path to A; e.g., relativise /a/b/c a/b/x/y => "../x/y".
2005-08-14* A primitive operation `dependencyClosure' to do automatic dependencyEelco Dolstra
determination (e.g., finding the header files dependencies of a C file) in Nix low-level builds automatically. For instance, in the function `compileC' in make/lib/default.nix, we find the header file dependencies of C file `main' as follows: localIncludes = dependencyClosure { scanner = file: import (findIncludes { inherit file; }); startSet = [main]; }; The function works by "growing" the set of dependencies, starting with the set `startSet', and calling the function `scanner' for each file to get its dependencies (which should yield a list of strings representing relative paths). For instance, when `scanner' is called on a file `foo.c' that includes the line #include "../bar/fnord.h" then `scanner' should yield ["../bar/fnord.h"]. This list of dependencies is absolutised relative to the including file and added to the set of dependencies. The process continues until no more dependencies are found (hence its a closure). `dependencyClosure' yields a list that contains in alternation a dependency, and its relative path to the directory of the start file, e.g., [ /bla/bla/foo.c "foo.c" /bla/bar/fnord.h "../bar/fnord.h" ] These relative paths are necessary for the builder that compiles foo.c to reconstruct the relative directory structure expected by foo.c. The advantage of `dependencyClosure' over the old approach (using the impure `__currentTime') is that it's completely pure, and more efficient because it only rescans for dependencies (i.e., by building the derivations yielded by `scanner') if sources have actually changed. The old approach rescanned every time.
2005-07-25* Added a list concatenation operator:Eelco Dolstra
[1 2 3] ++ [4 5 6] => [1 2 3 4 5 6]
2005-07-22* Build dynamic libraries.Eelco Dolstra
2005-07-19* Prevent repeated wrapping of closed termsEelco Dolstra
(closed(closed(closed(...)))) since this reduces performance by producing bigger terms and killing caching (which incidentally also prevents useful infinite recursion detection).
2005-07-16* Wat cleanups.Eelco Dolstra
2005-07-16* Define paths using regexps, as is done in the Flex definition.Eelco Dolstra
2005-07-16* Make the rejects a bit more compact.Eelco Dolstra
* Add lexical restrictions for keywords.
2005-07-16* Fix ambiguity.Eelco Dolstra
2005-07-16* Revive and update the SDF grammar for Nix expressions.Eelco Dolstra
2005-05-18* Added a primop `removeAttrs' to remove attributes from a set, e.g.,Eelco Dolstra
`removeAttrs attrs ["x", "y"]' returns the set `attrs' with the attributes named `x' and `y' removed. It is not an error for the named attributes to be missing from the input set.
2005-05-08* ATermMap needs an assignment operator, otherwise we are screwed.Eelco Dolstra
2005-05-07Commit 3000!Eelco Dolstra
* Make the `derivation' primitive much more lazy. The expression `derivation attrs' now evaluates to (essentially) attrs // { type = "derivation"; outPath = derivation! attrs; drvPath = derivation! attrs; } where `derivation!' is a primop that does the actual derivation instantiation (i.e., it does what `derivation' used to do). The advantage is that it allows commands such as `nix-env -qa' and `nix-env -i' to be much faster since they no longer need to instantiate all derivations, just the `name' attribute. (However, `nix-env' doesn't yet take advantage of this since it still always evaluates the `outPath' and `drvPath' attributes). Also, this allows derivations to cyclically reference each other, for example, webServer = derivation { ... hostName = "svn.cs.uu.nl"; services = [svnService]; }; svnService = derivation { ... hostName = webServer.hostName; }; Previously, this would yield a black hole (infinite recursion).
2005-05-02* Merging from nix-make branch:Eelco Dolstra
- Add __currentTime primitive (dangerous!). - Allow imports of derivations.
2005-04-10* Primop `__currentSystem' to return the current platform identifier.Eelco Dolstra