On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:54:48 +0200, Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> wrote: > (..) > To keep the long story short: I don't believe in generating .nix > expressions scaling very well for the future. But I don't know :) > > > expressions. If you did not install the combination sometime beforehand, > > then nix is I think the wrong tool by design. The question is more what > > tools we have to generate expressions for us. > > So how to use ruby,python,.. or many java maven driven packages on > nixpkgs then? Is the answer: Don't? Or "symlink libraries to /usr/lib > so that standard tools like ruby and python packages find them easier? > I'd like to get rid of this kind of mess. But I don't have the perfect > solution yet.
I cannot follow your argument. How is generating nix expressions related to having syminks in /usr/lib? > > If my perception of nix is wrong, please correct me. > You're welcome at "great Nix" facing reald world dynamic managed package > databases of dynamic languages :) > > So yes, its a feeling only that the current way won't scale for the future. > Its > not knowing. I may be wrong. I'm waiting for others proofing me wrong doing > all > the work :) Meanwhile I try to find solutions which work for me minimizing the > time I have to spend to get packages working .. Well then, lean back, let others struggle with generating nix expressions and enjoy the show ;) I'd like to see a discussion on how to generate nix expressions, not on "why what we are currently doing is maybe not going to work out", I guess that was discussed enough in the past. -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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