Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
On 07/05/15 14:29, Daniel Peebles wrote:
I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate
(dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir.
I made an abortive attempt at reducing the size of all-packages.nix a while
back:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/ece61b7cc803d374e81b1094bd9c1f6d5a9ca5d0
It would allow getting rid of all packages that don't override any default
arguments (i.e. pass { } to callPackage).
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Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate (dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir. If not, it seems like the majority of packages could work that way, along with room to override where necessary. On May 7, 2015, at 08:10, Wout Mertens wout.mert...@gmail.com wrote: all-packages.nix is gigantic, and because it's so large, github search doesn't index it. Would it be a good idea to move the attribute definitions into files per package section? So everything would still be in the pkgs attrset, only the definitions would be split across multiple files. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
all-packages.nix is gigantic, and because it's so large, github search doesn't index it. Would it be a good idea to move the attribute definitions into files per package section? So everything would still be in the pkgs attrset, only the definitions would be split across multiple files. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
the problem with readDir is slowness due to reading thousands of files... nix codegen would fix that :) On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:29 PM Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate (dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir. If not, it seems like the majority of packages could work that way, along with room to override where necessary. On May 7, 2015, at 08:10, Wout Mertens wout.mert...@gmail.com wrote: all-packages.nix is gigantic, and because it's so large, github search doesn't index it. Would it be a good idea to move the attribute definitions into files per package section? So everything would still be in the pkgs attrset, only the definitions would be split across multiple files. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
No need to read all the files, right? You import them lazily based on what readDir returns. On May 7, 2015, at 08:35, Wout Mertens wout.mert...@gmail.com wrote: the problem with readDir is slowness due to reading thousands of files... nix codegen would fix that :) On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:29 PM Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate (dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir. If not, it seems like the majority of packages could work that way, along with room to override where necessary. On May 7, 2015, at 08:10, Wout Mertens wout.mert...@gmail.com wrote: all-packages.nix is gigantic, and because it's so large, github search doesn't index it. Would it be a good idea to move the attribute definitions into files per package section? So everything would still be in the pkgs attrset, only the definitions would be split across multiple files. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
yes indeed that looks nice, it would eliminate some 3855 lines of 9351
non-empty lines... With more probably a small refactor away.
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:08 PM Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com wrote:
What went wrong? I think that's what I was thinking of
On May 7, 2015, at 08:50, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com
wrote:
On 07/05/15 14:29, Daniel Peebles wrote:
I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate
(dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir.
I made an abortive attempt at reducing the size of all-packages.nix a
while back:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/ece61b7cc803d374e81b1094bd9c1f6d5a9ca5d0
It would allow getting rid of all packages that don't override any
default
arguments (i.e. pass { } to callPackage).
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Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
Hi, On 07/05/15 15:02, Daniel Peebles wrote: No need to read all the files, right? You import them lazily based on what readDir returns. Yes, but you still need to traverse the directory tree, which itself takes a long time on non-SSD disks. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
well, that traversal could be automated at commit time? It's just an optimization... On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:24 PM Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 07/05/15 15:02, Daniel Peebles wrote: No need to read all the files, right? You import them lazily based on what readDir returns. Yes, but you still need to traverse the directory tree, which itself takes a long time on non-SSD disks. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] modularize all-packages?
What went wrong? I think that's what I was thinking of
On May 7, 2015, at 08:50, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:
On 07/05/15 14:29, Daniel Peebles wrote:
I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate
(dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir.
I made an abortive attempt at reducing the size of all-packages.nix a while
back:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/ece61b7cc803d374e81b1094bd9c1f6d5a9ca5d0
It would allow getting rid of all packages that don't override any default
arguments (i.e. pass { } to callPackage).
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