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Improve the hacking guide #7357
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I tried with @yorickvP to blindly follow the hacking guide as a poor man's user study. Below are some notes about that: "Building Nix" part
"Testing" part
Other considerations
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This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/tweag-nix-dev-update-41/23848/1 |
I did some work on this, and added inline checkmarks to the above comment. I would not like to change Changing optimization levels should probably go through I've been working on IWYU, but the resulting changes are quite big and somewhat disputable. "Building Nix" part
"Testing" part
Other considerations
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Only been made aware of this issue, note that I opened a PR ~1year ago improving the hacking docs: If you think it can be improved, I'd be happy to continue it! |
@yorickvP : Hey can I come in and help you with your hacker guide...!! Before I start I would like to take some inputs and links from u...?? |
Most of this has been addressed in various PRs, closing. |
The hacking guide exists and is a great thing to have, but has a number of shortcomings. We should work on it to make the first contributor experience smoother.
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