The code for serialization Expr nodes back into (pseudo-)Nix has been
removed for being subtly error-prone and tedious to maintain. Instead,
`nix-instantiate --parse` now prints a JSON representation of the AST.
Usage patterns of the --parse flag I've found in the wild:
1. Check if a file is well-formed, i.e. discard output and test exit code
2. Get parser errors from a file, i.e. discard stdout and use stderr
3. Nixfmt uses --parse to test equivalence pre/post format, and that property is (should be?) preserved
None of these should break with the current change
Closes#487
Change-Id: Icdbaad17790f2ad8765fa08e02e6597ee4c7a909
I think it is bad for these reasons when `tests/` contains a mix of
functional and integration tests
- Concepts is harder to understand, the documentation makes a good
unit vs functional vs integration distinction, but when the
integration tests are just two subdirs within `tests/` this is not
clear.
- Source filtering in the `flake.nix` is more complex. We need to
filter out some of the dirs from `tests/`, rather than simply pick
the dirs we want and take all of them. This is a good sign the
structure of what we are trying to do is not matching the structure
of the files.
With this change we have a clean:
```shell-session
$ git show 'HEAD:tests'
tree HEAD:tests
functional/
installer/
nixos/
```
(cherry picked from commit 68c81c737571794f7246db53fb4774e94fcf4b7e)
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