infinisil
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm going to quote https://save-nix-together.org/:
> Single-handedly blocking Meson, which has a passed RFC, for five years because he doesn’t know meson but knows his own build system
I don't know about exact timelines, but the letter is definitely wrong about this part.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm afraid the letter spread some misinformation: The meson RFC has in fact not been approved: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132
For a discussion on this, see https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained/issues/1
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a great post, very well said!
Over the weekend I’ve been working with NixOS foundation members and other community members to address what you’re describing, and I’m happy to say that the foundation is very willing to delegate governance to the community!
This kind of thing takes time to erect, but I’m doing my best to push this swiftly while trying to limit burnout. Stay tuned for a statement from the NixOS foundation this week!
Comment · 3 years ago
Flakes has an unfortunate past [1]. The fact that so many people are using Flakes now and treating them as stable makes it effectively impossible to make drastic changes, even though the design is flawed in many ways [2]. Nevertheless, the Nix team is discussing the stabilisation in recent weeks, with the tendency to not make breaking changes, but improving the design in the long term.
[1]: https://nix.dev/concepts/faq#why-are-flakes-controversial
[2]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/experimental-does-not-mean-uns...
Comment · 3 years ago
Hello, the person you're speaking about here. I appreciate all the concern but I'm actually doing very good! While working on Nix was originally a hobby for me, I am now getting paid to do it, so it doesn't have to eat up any of my free time. I have healthy relationships with my family and friends, seeing people every weekend. And even if I'm not very good at it, I practice playing an instrument for about an hour every day and take lessons weekly!
I also want to mention that I usually don't argue much about issues. Most of my time is spent on making concrete improvements to the ecosystem :)
Comment · 4 years ago
I think https://lobste.rs/ is pretty good at staying focused on programming
Comment · 4 years ago
I've got a similar setup myself, check out https://lobste.rs/s/yppnts/tailscale_on_nixos_new_minecraft_... where I describe how I did it. It's quite custom but all open source. https://github.com/infinisil/on-demand-minecraft is the main part
Comment · 4 years ago
It's referring to the ncurses library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses
Comment · 5 years ago
It would even suffice to just swap two random elements every iteration!
Comment · 6 years ago
Scion is such an effort: https://www.scion-architecture.net/
Comment · 6 years ago
- /nix has been the (default) location for at least 15 years without problems, changing this now just because Apple messed with this would be very strange
- With Nix, every path in /nix/store has its own ./bin, ./share, ./lib, etc. As such, putting /nix anywhere but in / doesn't make much sense
- And honestly, it's just short, fresh and distinctly different. The path symbolizes that Nix isn't bound by the conventions of other distro's
And problems with changing this now:
- It would be a huge amount of effort, there's many places where this location is assumed, not only in code, but also by people
- Finding the workforce to actually do this change will be near impossible, as the only benefit is a slightly easier installation for the latest macOS version, which is not Nix's main platform
That's on me, sorry! Ironically this was the artifact of a pretty large effort to _improve_ documentation [1]! This evidently wasn't executed perfectly, but I was also able to make many desperately needed cleanups in turn.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/245243