Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream"
The Lix team released Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream," a Nix implementation enhancing user experience with features like improved error reporting, faster evaluation, and style guide enforcement. Future plans focus on reliability and user-friendliness.
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The Lix team has announced the release of Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream," a Nix implementation focusing on reliability, predictability, and user-friendliness. This version includes various user-facing features exclusive to Lix, aiming to enhance the Nix experience. Lix 2.90 is built upon CppNix version 2.18 with backports for bug fixes and reliability improvements, ensuring compatibility with existing Nix code, including flakes. The release introduces enhancements such as improved error reporting, faster evaluation speeds, and a more robust debugger. Additionally, Lix now enforces style guides, offers release automation, and utilizes Gerrit for code reviews. The team expresses gratitude to beta testers and contributors for their support and feedback. Future plans include evolving Nix to be more reliable, secure, and user-friendly. For more details on the release, refer to the release notes. Lix is an independent variant of the Nix package manager, developed by a community of open-source volunteers dedicated to building a solid foundation for Nix's future evolution.
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4 commentsIf this means what I think it means, I might switch to this from nix. I used to occasionally get errors that would be cached in such a way that on a rerun I wouldn’t get any info. The error itself would cache but not any of the details about the error. Was super annoying cause if I lost the error details for any reason I couldn’t see them again easily. I’d have to make a pointless change somewhere and trick it into rebuilding without the cache.
Hah, this line used to be even worse. More power to them - it’s clear from the docs that they want to focus a lot on marginalization/the Oppression Olympics. More power to them to do their own thing, hopefully their spaces are whatever they want and they all stay over there.
Nix is my daily driver, and I’ve been seriously considering ditching it until things settle down in the community and some fork becomes the favored option.
Before I’d consider Lix, frankly I need more information about the core team and their view of the events of the last 6 months. I’m primed to want to like this project, but I’m feeling really cautious after experiencing the particular kind of toxicity that was at the root of the turmoil.
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