[Nix-dev] string vs path hell

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 10/06/14 11:27, Kirill Elagin wrote:

> Strings in nix have contexts:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/value.hh#L45.
> When you compare strings with  `==`, those contexts also get compared.

I've just gotten rid of that:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/ee7fe64c0ac00f2be11604a2a6509eb86dc19f0a

since comparing the context is not actually useful anywhere, AFAIK. So in Nix >=
1.8 `==` should behave like "eqString".

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