On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:49:19AM +0100, Alexander Foremny wrote: > Hello. > > I am trying to create a package for tabbed [1] and I am wondering how to > handle configuration. To the best of my knowledge tabbed can solely be > configured by editing `config.h.def' prior to compilation. I thought it > would be nice to expose all of the configuration to Nix and I started to > create a package which does that. > > Essentially I recreate the default configuration from a attribute set which > could be changed using Nix. See default.nix and > tabbedconfig-for-default.nix below.
I find that your approach quite cumbersome. I prefer the 'dwm' approach, where it has a parameter attribute 'patches'. Users can supply their multiple patches that way. That's a slightly harder process for a user, but it may last multiple tabbed versions. For dwm, since early vesions to 6.0 I only had to change my patch twice. Yesterday was one of the times, between 5.9 and 6.0. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
