Buildfarm: You're wrong and you know it. Parallelizing nix builds is easy (scaling horizontally) - You can write your own Amazon buildfarm within one day which scales automatically probably. The problem is "time to get a new build" - and for that (security updates etc) making each build go as fast as possible is required.
The more packages and dependencies - the longer will nix take - the greater the impact using nixos vs other distros (where you can recompile something in between and everything will pick it up) You're right that the goal is to make getting some particular builds for testing faster, too. ./configure is taking much time - anwyay. Don't think rewriting most packages to use cmake would be an option (and some cmake Makefiles are slower than hand tuned ones - at least I heared about such case) Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev