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2024-03-27HOT SALE: 15% off your build times!Jade Lovelace
This was achieved by running maintainers/buildtime_report.sh on the build directory of a meson build, then asking "why the heck is json eating our build times", and strategically moving the json using bits out of widely included headers. It turns out that putting literally any metrics whatsoever into the build had immediate and predictable results. Results are 1382.5s frontend time -> 1175.4s frontend time, back end time approximately invariant. Related: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/159 Change-Id: I7edea95c8536203325c8bb4dae5f32d727a21b2d
2024-03-11add automated usage mode to the replJade Lovelace
This is definitely not a stable thing, but it does feel slightly crimes to put it as an experimental feature. Shrug, up for bikeshedding. Change-Id: I6ef176e3dee6fb1cac9c0a7a60d553a2c63ea728
2023-08-07Stabilize `discard-references`Théophane Hufschmitt
It has been there for a few releases now (landed in 2.14.0), doesn't seem to cause any major issue and is wanted in a few places (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7087#issuecomment-1544471346).
2023-06-21Merge pull request #8374 from obsidiansystems/improve-path-settingJohn Ericson
Split `OptionalPathSetting` from `PathSetting`
2023-06-20Support opening local store with database on read-only filesystem (#8356)Ben Radford
Previously it was not possible to open a local store when its database is on a read-only filesystem. Obviously a store on a read-only filesystem cannot be modified, but it would still be useful to be able to query it. This change adds a new read-only setting to LocalStore. When set to true, Nix will skip operations that fail when the database is on a read-only filesystem (acquiring big-lock, schema migration, etc), and the store database will be opened in immutable mode. Co-authored-by: Ben Radford <benradf@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: cidkidnix <cidkidnix@protonmail.com> Co-authored-by: Dylan Green <67574902+cidkidnix@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me> Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-06-18Create nlohmann serializers for `std::optional` and useJohn Ericson
This is somewhat tricky.
2023-06-09Parse TOML timestamps (#8120)Andrea Bedini
Currently `fromTOML` throws an exception when encountering a timestamp since the Nix language lacks a way to represent them. This patch changes this beaviour and makes `fromTOML` parse timestamps as attrsets of the format { _type = "timestamp"; value = "1979-05-27T07:32:00Z"; } This is guarded by an experimental feature flag to leave room for iterating on the representation.
2023-04-17`TextHashMethod` -> `TextIngestionMethod`, gate with XP featureJohn Ericson
I suppose we can use `dynamic-derivations` for the few things we neeed.
2023-04-17Experimentally allow forcing `nix-daemon` trust; use this to testJohn Ericson
We finally test the status quo of remote build trust in a number of ways. We create a new experimental feature on `nix-daemon` to do so. PR #3921, which improves the situation with trustless remote building, will build upon these changes. This code / tests was pull out of there to make this, so everything is easier to review, and in particular we test before and after so the new behavior in that PR is readily apparent from the testsuite diff alone.
2023-04-04Assemble experimental feature docs outside of Nix itselfJohn Ericson
Instead of constructing a markdown list in C++ (which involved all sorts of nasty string literals), export some JSON and assemble it with the manual build system. Besides following the precedent set with other dumped data, this is a better separate of content and presentation; if we decide for example we want to display this information in a different way, or in a different section of the manual, it will become much easier to do so.
2023-04-02Add more API docs to `experimental-features.hh`John Ericson
2023-04-02Rework a few things with the experimental features listJohn Ericson
- Use struct not `std::pair`, designated initializers - Use `constexpr` array that we can index by enum tag - It no longer segfaults; not sure why.
2023-04-02Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into list-experimental-featuresJohn Ericson
2023-03-31Ensure all headers have `#pragma once` and are in API docsJohn Ericson
`///@file` makes them show up in the internal API dos. A tiny few were missing `#pragma once`.
2023-03-31Extend internal API docs, part 2John Ericson
Picking up from #8111. Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2023-03-27Documentation: list experimental features in manualNoah Snelson
Lists all current experimental features in the `nix.conf` manual.
2023-01-03`unsafeDiscardReferences`Naïm Favier
Adds a new boolean structured attribute `outputChecks.<output>.unsafeDiscardReferences` which disables scanning an output for runtime references. __structuredAttrs = true; outputChecks.out.unsafeDiscardReferences = true; This is useful when creating filesystem images containing their own embedded Nix store: they are self-contained blobs of data with no runtime dependencies. Setting this attribute requires the experimental feature `discard-references` to be enabled.
2022-11-18Separate cgroup support from auto-uid-allocationEelco Dolstra
The new experimental feature 'cgroups' enables the use of cgroups for all builds. This allows better containment and enables setting resource limits and getting some build stats.
2022-11-10Remove the SystemdCgroup featureEelco Dolstra
2022-11-03Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into auto-uid-allocationEelco Dolstra
2022-05-20repl: add repl-flake experimental feature for gatingTom Bereknyei
2022-05-03nix profile: Support overriding outputsEelco Dolstra
2022-04-20Add custom to_json and from_json functions for ExperimentalFeatureYorick van Pelt
nix show-config --json was serializing experimental features as ints. nlohmann::json will automatically use these definitions to serialize and deserialize ExperimentalFeatures. Strictly, we don't use the from_json instance yet, it's provided for completeness and hopefully future use.
2022-04-08Error: Remove unused sname() methodEelco Dolstra
2022-03-31Add support for impure derivationsEelco Dolstra
Impure derivations are derivations that can produce a different result every time they're built. Example: stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "impure"; __impure = true; # marks this derivation as impure outputHashAlgo = "sha256"; outputHashMode = "recursive"; buildCommand = "date > $out"; }; Some important characteristics: * This requires the 'impure-derivations' experimental feature. * Impure derivations are not "cached". Thus, running "nix-build" on the example above multiple times will cause a rebuild every time. * They are implemented similar to CA derivations, i.e. the output is moved to a content-addressed path in the store. The difference is that we don't register a realisation in the Nix database. * Pure derivations are not allowed to depend on impure derivations. In the future fixed-output derivations will be allowed to depend on impure derivations, thus forming an "impurity barrier" in the dependency graph. * When sandboxing is enabled, impure derivations can access the network in the same way as fixed-output derivations. In relaxed sandboxing mode, they can access the local filesystem.
2022-03-24Add experimental feature 'fetch-closure'Eelco Dolstra
2022-02-28Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into auto-uid-allocationJohn Ericson
2021-10-26Make experimental-features a proper typeregnat
Rather than having them plain strings scattered through the whole codebase, create an enum containing all the known experimental features. This means that - Nix can now `warn` when an unkwown experimental feature is passed (making it much nicer to spot typos and spot deprecated features) - It’s now easy to remove a feature altogether (once the feature isn’t experimental anymore or is dropped) by just removing the field for the enum and letting the compiler point us to all the now invalid usages of it.