hack.

  to be specified in configure (using `--with-system=SYSTEM').

  Linux), so use setpgid().

* When a fast build wakes up a goal, try to start that goal in the
  same iteration of the startBuild() loop of run().  Otherwise no job
  might be started until the next job terminates.

  (Though the `build-remote.pl' script has a gigantic race condition).

  per-machine maximum number of parallel jobs on a remote machine.

  in parallel.  Hooks are more efficient: locks on output paths are
  only acquired when the hook says that it is willing to accept a
  build job.  Hooks now work in two phases.  First, they should first
  tell Nix whether they are willing to accept a job.  Nix guarantuees
  that no two hooks will ever be in the first phase at the same time
  (this simplifies the implementation of hooks, since they don't have
  to perform locking (?)).  Second, if they accept a job, they are
  then responsible for building it (on the remote system), and copying
  the result back.  These can be run in parallel with other hooks and
  locally executed jobs.

  The implementation is a bit messy right now, though.  

* The directory `distributed' shows a (hacky) example of a hook that
  distributes build jobs over a set of machines listed in a
  configuration file.
  

  no limit).
* Add missing file to distribution.

  distributing a build action to another machine.  In particular, the
  paths in the input closures, the output paths, and successor mapping
  for sub-derivations.

  parallel as possible (similar to GNU Make's `-j' switch).  This is
  useful on SMP systems, but it is especially useful for doing builds
  on multiple machines.  The idea is that a large derivation is
  initiated on one master machine, which then distributes
  sub-derivations to any number of slave machines.  This should not
  happen synchronously or in lock-step, so the master must be capable
  of dealing with multiple parallel build jobs.  We now have the
  infrastructure to support this.

  TODO: substitutes are currently broken.

* Ignore EINTR in reads and writes.

  possible.

  This test fails right now because this hasn't been implemented right
  now.  Yes, I'm doing Test-Driven Development! ;-)

* A test to verify that locking of output paths (caused by concurrent
  invocations of Nix) works correctly.

  environment variables.
* Started adding some automatic tests.
* Do a `make check' when building RPMs.

* Documented release procedures.

  is specified.

  Nix expressions.

  To subscribe to a channel (needs to be done only once):

    nix-channel --add \
      http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/nixpkgs-unstable

  This just adds the given URL to ~/.nix-channels (which can also be
  edited manually).

  To update from all channels:

    nix-channel --update

  This fetches the latest expressions and pulls cache manifests.  The
  default Nix expression (~/.nix-defexpr) is made to point to the
  conjunction of the expressions downloaded from all channels.

  So to update all installed derivations in the current user
  environment:

    nix-channel --update
    nix-env --upgrade '*'

  If you are really courageous, you can put this in a cronjob or
  something.

  You can subscribe to multiple channels.  It is not entirely clear
  what happens when there are name clashes between derivations from
  different channels.  From nix-env/main.cc it appears that the one
  with the lowest (highest?) hash will be used, which is pretty
  meaningless.

  unless `--disable-init-state' is passed to configure.

  an expression.

  environment variable.  This is useful for passing authentication
  information (it won't show up in `ps').  Hacky - nix-push should
  abstract over the use of Curl.