That feature would be really cool. I'm a bit confused, what's the status of the "Recursive Nix" feature?
Is it really on hold? Or waiting for a better implementation? On 28/03/2015 9:50 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: > On 26 March 2015 at 12:37, Domen Kožar <do...@dev.si> wrote: >> [...] >> I'd really like to see "private store files" implemented for this release, >> since it's the major drawback in our current package manager (after I've >> talked to quite some people from community in the last year). See >> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8 > One of my biggest wishes for Nix/NixOS, is the ability to build > packages from upstream tarballs which contain a default.nix file. > > I think that would make a great argument for winning people over to > the Nix-side: > > With this small default.nix file in your source tree you'll be able > to reproduce your development setup on any machine. > And further, users can install your package simply by adding this to > their config: > environment.systemPackages = [ ... ] ++ (remotePackages [ > "http://project/source.tar.gz"; ]) > > I don't know if this is a pipe dream :-) > > I guess this is the issue to discuss: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13 > > - Bjørn > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev -- Founder of Matrix AI http://matrix.ai/ +61420925975 _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
