The first version that supports zstd compression, to create the option
to eventually switch compression for the binary cache.
It was released one year ago on 2023-11-03 and first shipped in NixOS
23.11.
Probably a missed left over from somewhere in
the commit 58f385f680.
As can be seen in that commit where this line was introduced,
"$@" was also just emptied by the last `set` call in line 169.
This line is currently valid, but breaks suddenly when somewhere earlier
a `set --` instruction is used in the future.
Neither in commit 58f385f680
nor in PR https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/197547
have I found anything stating that this "defect" was intentional.
`For android 'sdkVer' has been renamed to 'androidSdkVersion'`
While doing the above rename I forgot to consider if there were still
darwin platforms in `lib.systems.examples` using `sdkVer`
These still fail eval, but that happened before the renaming too.
`error: Unsupported sdk: 14.3`
In preparation for the deprecation of `stdenv.isX`.
These shorthands are not conducive to cross-compilation because they
hide the platforms.
Darwin might get cross-compilation for which the continued usage of `stdenv.isDarwin` will get in the way
One example of why this is bad and especially affects compiler packages
https://www.github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/343059
There are too many files to go through manually but a treewide should
get users thinking when they see a `hostPlatform.isX` in a place where it
doesn't make sense.
```
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv.is" "stdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv'.is" "stdenv'.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "clangStdenv.is" "clangStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "gccStdenv.is" "gccStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenvNoCC.is" "stdenvNoCC.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "inherit (stdenv) is" "inherit (stdenv.hostPlatform) is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "buildStdenv.is" "buildStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "effectiveStdenv.is" "effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "originalStdenv.is" "originalStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
```
This makes the type more informative and general - closer to how the function behaves, particularly in isolation.
Co-authored-by: Yueh-Shun Li <shamrocklee@posteo.net>