On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 14:24, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can somebody explain what the use of selectVersion in all-packages.nix is? > It's > full of calls like > > selectVersion ../tools/system/ddrescue "1.8" > > which seems rather pointless to me, given that you can just as easily say > "import ../tools/system/ddrescue/1.8.nix". I propose a global search/replace > to > get rid of them...
If I understand the point of selectVersion, this was used to override the default version number when it is used with composedArgsAndFun. So if you need a non-default version, you can just specify which version you want. look at ltrace to see an example on elfutils. -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - If you are doing something twice then you should try to do it once. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
