Move plugins infra to libnixmain
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In theory the warning is more noisy now, but in practice this will not happen unless the client is older than 2.14 (highly unlikely).
They are not actually part of the store layer, but instead part of the Nix executable infra (libraries don't need plugins, executables do). This is part of a larger project of moving all of our legacy settings infra to libmain, and having the underlying libraries just have plain configuration structs detached from any settings infra / UI layer. Progress on NixOS#5638
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libraries don't need plugins, executables do
Executables using libraries also do, and libraries are only useful when executing them, which happens through executables, so this is a red herring.
Suppose I have a plugin that registers a builtin or a new hash function, and I configure that in nix.conf, then I would expect all of Nix to load it; not just the Nix CLI, but also other executables. Whether they call nix eval or -lnixexprc should not matter.
Coming to think of it, we could move plugins down into libutil so you can register your own hash functions, although the list of possible hashes is a store thing anyway, but also putting domain logic in libutil is wrong, so moving that is probably better. Plugins in libstore seems ok for now.
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@roberth I did move them to a library I want to move all the config stuff to |
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Ok, I didn't see It'd be nice to have some sort of description of each library. nix/src/libmain/nix-main.pc.in Line 6 in 509be0e nix/src/libutil/nix-util.pc.in Line 6 in 509be0e nix/src/libexpr/nix-expr.pc.in Line 6 in 509be0e 馃 |
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We can't just remove it. Could you create a new c library for this?
Motivation
They are not actually part of the store layer, but instead part of the Nix executable infra (libraries don't need plugins, executables do).
Context
This is part of a larger project of moving all of our legacy settings infra to libmain, and having the underlying libraries just have plain configuration structs detached from any settings infra / UI layer.
Progress on #5638
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