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Valentin Gagarin 4781e7fa70 Document each store type on its own page
This makes for more useful manual table of contents, that displays the
information at a glance.

The `nix help-stores` command is kept as-is, even though it will show up
in the manual with the same information as these pages due to the way it
is written as a "`--help`-style" command. Deciding what to do with that
command is left for a later PR.

This change also lists all store types at the top of the respective overview page.

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems
2023-12-01 01:27:52 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin d5ffc94f33 use lookup paths in helper expressions consistently
this makes the files in question a bit more independent of source location.

to find where the value is set and how it's wired up:

    rg nix=doc/manual
2023-11-30 21:53:31 +01:00
John Ericson 73eb6a2a57 Single page for experimental feature descriptions
As requested by @fricklerhandwerk.
2023-04-09 11:01:23 -04:00
John Ericson bc192a95ef Describe active experimental features in the contributing guide
They are put in the manual separate pages under the new overarching
description of experimental features.

The settings page just lists the valid experimental feature names (so
people know what a valid setting entry looks like), with links to those
pages. It doesn't attempt to describe each experimental feature as that
is too much information for the configuration settings section.
2023-04-06 18:07:59 -04:00
John Ericson 53d0836347 Assemble experimental feature docs outside of Nix itself
Instead of constructing a markdown list in C++ (which involved all sorts
of nasty string literals), export some JSON and assemble it with the
manual build system.

Besides following the precedent set with other dumped data, this is a
better separate of content and presentation; if we decide for example we
want to display this information in a different way, or in a different
section of the manual, it will become much easier to do so.
2023-04-04 22:57:11 -04:00