Hi Arun,
On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 at 00:57, Arun Isaac wrote:
> I am translating Guix to the Tamil language. Tamil doesn't yet have a
> very standardized technical vocabulary, and I mostly coin terms on my
> own. Most often, I construct calques of existing English words, and it
> sounds alright. But,
> For instance, you might ask “how do you derive the formula for the area
> of a circle?”. If you flip the question around, you could ask “what is
> the derivation of the formula for the area of a circle?”. Here’s an
> example titled “Area of a circle - derivation” [1]. I also see people
> on p
Hello,
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Arun Isaac skribis:
>
>> The original Nix publication was helpful. On page 22 of the full thesis,
>> it says:
>>
>> Derivation is Nix-speak for a component build action, which derives
>> the component from its inputs.
>
> Not sure if it helps, but I struggled a
> Lower-level APIs are available to interact with the daemon and the
> store. To instruct the daemon to perform a build action, users
> actually provide it with a “derivation”. A derivation is a low-level
> representation of the build actions to be taken, and the environment
> in which they shou
Hi,
Arun Isaac skribis:
> The original Nix publication was helpful. On page 22 of the full thesis,
> it says:
>
> Derivation is Nix-speak for a component build action, which derives
> the component from its inputs.
Not sure if it helps, but I struggled a bit with the etymology of the
word as we
>> Actually I don't understand what "message" would mean in "build-message".
>> I'm more confused than with "derivation" :p
>
> It is the minimal build information that the build-daemon requires. A
> message to the build daemon in a way.
Perhaps "build request" is a slightly better term. Just as
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi Arun!
>
> Actually I don't understand what "message" would mean in "build-message".
> I'm more confused than with "derivation" :p
It is the minimal build information that the build-daemon requires. A
message to the build daemo
Thank you all for your inputs!
The original Nix publication was helpful. On page 22 of the full thesis,
it says:
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Derivation is Nix-speak for a component build action, which derives
the component from its inputs.
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Hi Arun,
I have been student of Sanskrit, but I am not master of Sanskrit. I would
like to say that we can derive words in Indian languages easily. If we
don’t have such words then Indian languages have something called dhatu
(root). व्युत्पन्न “Vyutpanna” is a marathi word for derivation. Try to
f
On 01.11.2020 20:27, Arun Isaac wrote:
Hi Guix,
I am translating Guix to the Tamil language. Tamil doesn't yet have a
very standardized technical vocabulary, and I mostly coin terms on my
own. Most often, I construct calques of existing English words, and it
sounds alright. But, I'm having trou
On 2020-11-02, Arun Isaac wrote:
> I am translating Guix to the Tamil language. Tamil doesn't yet have a
> very standardized technical vocabulary, and I mostly coin terms on my
> own. Most often, I construct calques of existing English words, and it
> sounds alright. But, I'm having trouble with th
Hi Guix,
I am translating Guix to the Tamil language. Tamil doesn't yet have a
very standardized technical vocabulary, and I mostly coin terms on my
own. Most often, I construct calques of existing English words, and it
sounds alright. But, I'm having trouble with the word "derivation" (as
in Gui
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