[Nix-dev] Re: What should the build farm build?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> writes:
> 
>> * selectMaintained (renamed): don't use meta.maintainer, just use
>>   meta.platforms.
> 
> What was the reason for this change?
> 
> Some time ago, we had (IIRC) reached consensus around the fact that the
> build farm should pick anything that’s maintained.  I recently made a
> change such that a package that’s maintained and doesn’t have
> ‘meta.platforms’ is built on all supported platforms.

Aha.  It just seemed strange to me that meta.platforms is ignored if
meta.maintainers is empty.  I'll change it to use meta.platforms if it exists,
and otherwise build on all platforms if meta.maintainers is set.

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